Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- W. H. Thompson

Best Quotes about Youth

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.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

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

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

10.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

17.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

18.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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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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 doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

28.

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

29.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Seneca

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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

Proverb, French

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.

Jones, Howard M.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Hafiz

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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

50.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph