Motivational Quotes

Youth

Young people need models, not critics...

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Seneca

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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

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

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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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 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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb, French

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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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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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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

Hafiz

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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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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Coco Chanel

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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

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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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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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