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

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.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hill, Aaron

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Coco Chanel

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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

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Bible

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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 a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Dickens, Charles

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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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

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

Jung, Carl