Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Hafiz

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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

10.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

12.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

17.

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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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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

24.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Dave Barry

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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

30.

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Geraldy, Paul

33.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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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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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

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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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 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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Lindsey, Ben