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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hafiz

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

James M. Barrie

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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 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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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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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 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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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; 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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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Seneca

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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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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Little, Mary

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Benchley, Robert

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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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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 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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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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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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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 has become a class.