Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Youth

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Benchley, Robert

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Euripides

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Hafiz

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Seneca

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

Bible

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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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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, French

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Lindsey, Ben

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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.