Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Little, Mary

13.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

15.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

20.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

21.

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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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

23.

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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Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Seneca

28.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

29.

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

30.

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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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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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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.