Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

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

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

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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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

14.

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

15.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

16.

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

17.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

19.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

20.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

21.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

24.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

25.

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

Benchley, Robert

26.

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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

28.

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

Bible

29.

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

30.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

31.

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

32.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

45.

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

Dave Barry

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y