Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Miller, Henry

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bible

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.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

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

Proverb, French

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 doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

11.

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

George Bernard Shaw

12.

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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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, 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

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Billings, Josh

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Brookner, Anita

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Euripides

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Hafiz

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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dave Barry

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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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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.