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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Euripides

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

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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, 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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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

26.

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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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coco Chanel

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

Benchley, Robert

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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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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

Dave Barry

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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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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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 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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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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