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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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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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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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 passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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

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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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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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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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.

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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 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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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

46.

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

Williams, Carey

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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.

49.

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

Coco Chanel

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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