Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Youth

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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

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

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

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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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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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Williams, Carey

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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bible

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

Little, Mary

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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