Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Picabia, Francis

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Euripides

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Willa Cather

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

25.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Bible

30.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

32.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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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

45.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.