Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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.

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

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

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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.

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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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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hill, Aaron

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bumper Sticker

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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