Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

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

Little, Mary

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

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Euripides

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

James M. Barrie

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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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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.

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