Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Takuboku, Ishikawa

Best Quotes about Youth

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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

Coco Chanel

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Jung, Carl

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Seneca

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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.