Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Kafka, Franz

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

W. H. Thompson

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

James M. Barrie

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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