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

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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

Euripides

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

10.

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

Wade, H. V.

11.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

12.

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

13.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

14.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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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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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

20.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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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

34.

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

Proverb, French

35.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

36.

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

Benchley, Robert

37.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

39.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

Hill, Aaron

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

42.

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

Bumper Sticker

43.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

48.

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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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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