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

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

Benchley, Robert

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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

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

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Seneca

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Dave Barry

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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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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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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Jung, Carl

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

46.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.