Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Willa Cather

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

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

Coco Chanel

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

W. H. Thompson

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

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

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

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

17.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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, 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

23.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

24.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

27.

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

Seneca

28.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

29.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

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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

32.

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

33.

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

Benchley, Robert

34.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

35.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

38.

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

Lindsey, Ben

39.

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

Wade, H. V.

40.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

41.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

43.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

44.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

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

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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

48.

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

Lowell, James Russell

49.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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