Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Willa Cather

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Miller, Henry

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

Benchley, Robert

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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

Williams, Carey

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Dave Barry

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Willa Cather

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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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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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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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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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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Livingston, Richard W.