Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Seneca

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

Williams, Carey

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Brookner, Anita

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Willa Cather

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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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 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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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Dave Barry

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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