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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

25.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Coco Chanel

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

W. H. Thompson

31.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Seneca

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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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

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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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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