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

Herbert Henry Asquith

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Euripides

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Shaw, George Bernard

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

10.

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

11.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

13.

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

Jung, Carl

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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.

15.

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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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Little, Mary

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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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Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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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 people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

50.

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