Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Wade, H. V.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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.

10.

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

11.

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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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Euripides

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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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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Brookner, Anita

25.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

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

Dave Barry

28.

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

Lowell, James Russell

29.

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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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

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Proverb, French

37.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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 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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric