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

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Jung, Carl

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Hafiz

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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

13.

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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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

15.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

16.

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 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 passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

22.

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

Benchley, Robert

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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

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

28.

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

Wade, H. V.

29.

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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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

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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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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

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

34.

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

Bumper Sticker

35.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

37.

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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Miller, Henry

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We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

46.

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

Coco Chanel

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann