Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Seneca

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hill, Aaron

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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 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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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

Jung, Carl

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Hafiz

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Waugh, Evelyn