Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Dave Barry

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Euripides

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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Little, Mary

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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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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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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Willa Cather

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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 the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Coco Chanel

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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

31.

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

Seneca

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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