Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Jung, Carl

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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 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, 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

15.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

16.

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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Williams, Carey

20.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

22.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

George Bernard Shaw

24.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

28.

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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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

30.

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

31.

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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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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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

38.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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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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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

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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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

46.

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Proverb, French

50.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie