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

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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]

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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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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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

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

Hafiz

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Dave Barry

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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