Motivational Quotes

Youth

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

- J. K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

W. H. Thompson

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

10.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Proverb, French

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Williams, Carey

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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 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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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

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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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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, 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

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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