Motivational Quotes

Youth

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Best Quotes about Youth

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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

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

Dickens, Charles

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Jung, Carl

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Dave Barry

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bumper Sticker

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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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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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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 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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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.

Bacon, Francis

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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, 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

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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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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

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Brookner, Anita

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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...