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

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

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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Picabia, Francis

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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.

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Geraldy, Paul

15.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

20.

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

Willa Cather

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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.

22.

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

Coco Chanel

23.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

27.

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

Bumper Sticker

28.

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

29.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

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

Lindsey, Ben

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Livingston, Richard W.

39.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Dave Barry

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Miller, Henry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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