Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hill, Aaron

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

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

Euripides

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Wade, H. V.

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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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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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

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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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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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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

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Brookner, Anita

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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 cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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

Miller, Henry

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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