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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Bumper Sticker

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Willa Cather

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

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

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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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

11.

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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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 young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

14.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

15.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

16.

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

Benchley, Robert

17.

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.

18.

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

Seneca

19.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

20.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

21.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

23.

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

Eliot, T. S.

24.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

25.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

26.

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

27.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

28.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

30.

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

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

Euripides

32.

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

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

Proverb, French

41.

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

42.

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

Wade, H. V.

44.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

46.

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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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 young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

49.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul