Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Little, Mary

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...