Motivational Quotes

Youth

Ask the young. They know everything.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

11.

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

Little, Mary

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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

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

20.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Miller, Henry

25.

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

George Bernard Shaw

26.

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

Benchley, Robert

27.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Bumper Sticker

29.

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

W. H. Thompson

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

38.

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

39.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Geraldy, Paul

42.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

44.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

45.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Hill, Aaron

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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