Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

James M. Barrie

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Williams, Carey

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

19.

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

Hafiz

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

24.

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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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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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

27.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Seneca

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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

Proverb, French

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.