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

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Wade, H. V.

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

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

Brookner, Anita

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.

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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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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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 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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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Seneca

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

Willa Cather

19.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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.

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

Little, Mary

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

Euripides

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

29.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

33.

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

34.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Proverb, French

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

46.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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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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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