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

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Euripides

10.

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

Miller, Henry

11.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

12.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

15.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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

17.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

18.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

19.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

23.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

25.

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

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

27.

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

Benchley, Robert

28.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

29.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

31.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

37.

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

38.

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

Dave Barry

39.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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

41.

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

Dickens, Charles

42.

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

43.

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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Seneca

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

Wade, H. V.

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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 a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril