Motivational Quotes

Youth

Ask the young. They know everything.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Coco Chanel

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 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

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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Euripides

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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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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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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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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

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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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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Willa Cather

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bumper Sticker

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