Motivational Quotes

Youth

We have some salt of our youth in us.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Youth

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Wade, H. V.

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

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Seneca

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

Miller, Henry

17.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Hafiz

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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 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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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 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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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

33.

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

Euripides

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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

37.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Dave Barry

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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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