Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

10.

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

Kafka, Franz

11.

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

Euripides

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Lowell, James Russell

16.

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.

17.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

18.

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

Geraldy, Paul

19.

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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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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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

24.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

27.

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

Willa Cather

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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

29.

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

James M. Barrie

30.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

31.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Pritchett, V. S.

37.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Hill, Aaron

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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

45.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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

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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

48.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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