Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Hill, Aaron

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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

Kafka, Franz

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

10.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

11.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

12.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

13.

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Seneca

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

23.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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 had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

42.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

43.

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

44.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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

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

Little, Mary

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

Wade, H. V.

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