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

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

Hafiz

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Coco Chanel

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

10.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

11.

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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hill, Aaron

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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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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 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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Brookner, Anita

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Little, Mary

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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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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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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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