Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

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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, 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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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 is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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]

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

18.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

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

Hafiz

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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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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

25.

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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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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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

39.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

44.

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

Little, Mary

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

Coco Chanel