Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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.

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

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

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Euripides

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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

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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

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Seneca

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Coco Chanel

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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