Motivational Quotes

Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Youth

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Miller, Henry

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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 passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Willa Cather

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

Williams, Carey

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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

30.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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