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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

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

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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 young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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 the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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

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

Hafiz

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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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, 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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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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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 not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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 have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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 passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Coco Chanel

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