Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Willa Cather

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hafiz

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Euripides

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Benchley, Robert

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, 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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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Proverb, French

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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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