Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Williams, Carey

Best Quotes about Youth

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

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Willa Cather

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Coco Chanel

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

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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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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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

12.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Euripides

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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Geraldy, Paul

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Seneca

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

38.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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.