Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Hafiz

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

W. H. Thompson

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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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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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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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jung, Carl

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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 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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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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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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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

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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.