Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Jung, Carl

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.

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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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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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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Dave Barry

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Proverb, French

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Hafiz