Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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.

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

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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

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

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.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Euripides

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Seneca

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

Brookner, Anita

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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 troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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