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 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

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

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Miller, Henry

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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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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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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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 young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.