Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Geraldy, Paul

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Willa Cather

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

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

11.

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

Benchley, Robert

12.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

13.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Coco Chanel

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

32.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

33.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Williams, Carey

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

49.

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

Miller, Henry