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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

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

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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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

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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

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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, 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 is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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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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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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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 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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Willa Cather

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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 enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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