Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

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

Coco Chanel

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Hafiz

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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, 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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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Euripides

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Wade, H. V.

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