Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Wade, H. V.

Best Quotes about Youth

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Williams, Carey

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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Euripides

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

Lewis, Joe E.

11.

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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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Dave Barry

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

W. H. Thompson

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

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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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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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 the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Proverb, French

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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

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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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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

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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Youth has become a class.