Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

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

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

10.

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

11.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Euripides

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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

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Williams, Carey

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

18.

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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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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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

23.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hafiz

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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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 should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Miller, Henry

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