Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

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

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Hill, Aaron

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

18.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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Johnson, Samuel

21.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

22.

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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Bumper Sticker

27.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

28.

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

W. H. Thompson

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Brookner, Anita

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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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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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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

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

Williams, Carey

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

44.

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

Coco Chanel

45.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

46.

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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Willa Cather