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

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

Wade, H. V.

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

Eric Schmidt

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Dave Barry

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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 a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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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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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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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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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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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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.