Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

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

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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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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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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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

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

25.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, French

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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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 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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Lindsey, Ben

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph