Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Little, Mary

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Kafka, Franz

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 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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Willa Cather

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Euripides

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Bible

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hafiz

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Proverb, French

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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 troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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 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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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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