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

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Jung, Carl

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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

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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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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 doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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, 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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Seneca

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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 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 the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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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

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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 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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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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

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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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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