Motivational Quotes

Youth

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Youth

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

10.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

11.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

16.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

17.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

18.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Ask the young. They know everything.