Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hafiz

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

Wade, H. V.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Brookner, Anita

13.

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

14.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 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

17.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

19.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

20.

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

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

24.

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

Willa Cather

25.

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

Seneca

27.

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

James M. Barrie

28.

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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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

31.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

32.

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

33.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

37.

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

Dave Barry

38.

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 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

40.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Miller, Henry

42.

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

43.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

44.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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

W. H. Thompson

46.

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

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

49.

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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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