Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Wade, H. V.

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

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

George Bernard Shaw

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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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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

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

37.

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

Benchley, Robert

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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.

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.