Motivational Quotes

Youth

Ask the young. They know everything.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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

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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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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

21.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Little, Mary

24.

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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Dickens, Charles

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

W. H. Thompson

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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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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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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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo