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

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Bible

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

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

Hafiz

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

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Miller, Henry

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

Seneca

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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

17.

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

Benchley, Robert

18.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

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

Brookner, Anita

27.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Wade, H. V.

34.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Dickens, Charles

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

40.

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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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

42.

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

Proverb, French

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

45.

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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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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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