Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Geraldy, Paul

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Wade, H. V.

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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Willa Cather

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Euripides

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Miller, Henry

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

39.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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'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

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

Little, Mary

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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.