Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Hafiz

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

James M. Barrie

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

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Willa Cather

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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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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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Dave Barry

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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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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.