Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Little, Mary

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Williams, Carey

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Miller, Henry

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

Dickens, Charles

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Dave Barry

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Hafiz