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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Coco Chanel

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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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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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Bible

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Little, Mary

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Miller, Henry

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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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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle