Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

Seneca

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Hafiz

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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

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

W. H. Thompson

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.