Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Wade, H. V.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

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

Coco Chanel

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

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

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

Seneca

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

10.

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

11.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

12.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

13.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

15.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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 young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

19.

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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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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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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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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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 is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Little, Mary

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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

34.

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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The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

James M. Barrie

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

Jung, Carl

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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

44.

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

Miller, Henry

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Dave Barry

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

Proverb, French

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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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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