Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

14.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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 surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Eliot, T. S.

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

37.

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Livingston, Richard W.

41.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Little, Mary

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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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 the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis