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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

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

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

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

W. H. Thompson

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Willa Cather

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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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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 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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Wade, H. V.

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Suso, Heinrich

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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]

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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