Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Little, Mary

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Euripides

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Seneca

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, French

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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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