Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Williams, Carey

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

Lowell, James Russell

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

James M. Barrie

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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 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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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 cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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

Proverb, French

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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

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