Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

10.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

11.

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

James M. Barrie

12.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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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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

15.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

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

Geraldy, Paul

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

21.

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

22.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Dickens, Charles

26.

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

Lowell, James Russell

27.

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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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

31.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

32.

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 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

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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 a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Seneca

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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

41.

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

Miller, Henry

42.

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

Hafiz

43.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

44.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

45.

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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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

47.

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

48.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

49.

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

Brookner, Anita

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift