Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Little, Mary

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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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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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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 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

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

Benchley, Robert

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Dave Barry

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Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hafiz

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Proverb, French

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