Motivational Quotes

Youth

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Bible

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Willa Cather

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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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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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

33.

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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Seneca

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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