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 have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Euripides

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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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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

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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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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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 knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

27.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

28.

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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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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

31.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hafiz

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

Proverb, French

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

46.

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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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 American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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