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

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hill, Aaron

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

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

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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

W. H. Thompson

10.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

12.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Proverb, French

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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 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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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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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Seneca

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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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

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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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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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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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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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

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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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