Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Lindsey, Ben

Best Quotes about Youth

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

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

Willa Cather

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Euripides

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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

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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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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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

Wade, H. V.

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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.