Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Wade, H. V.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

W. H. Thompson

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

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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

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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hafiz

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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

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

Geraldy, Paul

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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

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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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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wade, H. V.

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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

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

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

James M. Barrie

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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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

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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