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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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 is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Willa Cather

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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

Seneca

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hafiz

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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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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