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

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

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Euripides

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

Hafiz

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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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Coco Chanel

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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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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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]

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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 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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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