Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Gilmore, Dame Mary

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Hafiz

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

Jung, Carl

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Seneca

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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.

Kafka, Franz

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Wade, H. V.

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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

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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.

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Coco Chanel

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