Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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 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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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

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Brookner, Anita

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Seneca

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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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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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

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

Bible

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Dave Barry

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

Geraldy, Paul

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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.