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

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

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

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Jung, Carl

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Euripides

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Little, Mary

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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

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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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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

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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.