Motivational Quotes

Youth

I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

- Richards, Ann

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jung, Carl

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

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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

Little, Mary

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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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Miller, Henry

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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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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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

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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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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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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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