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

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

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

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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Little, Mary

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Proverb, French

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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.

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Jung, Carl

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wade, H. V.

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Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson