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

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Eliot, T. S.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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

Seneca

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 sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Dickens, Charles

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Coco Chanel

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

34.

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

Hafiz

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We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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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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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, 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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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

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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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

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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert