Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Euripides

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Hafiz

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Wade, H. V.

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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

16.

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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

28.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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.

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.