Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Seneca

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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.

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

Euripides

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

11.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

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

13.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Willa Cather

16.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

W. H. Thompson

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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 American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Dave Barry

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Hafiz

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

47.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Wade, H. V.

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd