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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Hafiz

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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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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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 doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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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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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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 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 American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Dickens, Charles