Motivational Quotes

Youth

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

- Decter, Midge

Best Quotes about Youth

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Coco Chanel

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

Williams, Carey

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Wade, H. V.

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

28.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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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

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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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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Hafiz

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

Willa Cather

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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Decter, Midge

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Waugh, Evelyn