Motivational Quotes

Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Hafiz

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

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

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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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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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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Euripides

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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

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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

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

Williams, Carey

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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

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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

38.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

39.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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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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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare