Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Hafiz

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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 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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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

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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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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

28.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

30.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

31.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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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 is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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

Waugh, Evelyn