Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Dickens, Charles

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

10.

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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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

14.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

31.

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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

37.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

Aiken, Conrad

43.

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

Euripides

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Dave Barry

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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