Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Proverb, French

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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

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

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

Little, Mary

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

James M. Barrie

11.

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

12.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

13.

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

Hill, Aaron

14.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

15.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

16.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

18.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Seneca

21.

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

Willa Cather

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

24.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

25.

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

26.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

29.

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

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

32.

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

33.

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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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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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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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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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 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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard