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 feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Coco Chanel

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Little, Mary

11.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

W. H. Thompson

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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 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

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

28.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

33.

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

Euripides

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

Lowell, James Russell

36.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

40.

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

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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.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Miller, Henry

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall