Youth Quotes

• Young people need models, not critics.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Youth Of Today, Nba

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Dream, Greatness, Age

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• The whims of youth break all the rules.

  Homer

  Break, Whim

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• The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth.

  Pythagoras

  Government

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• To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Monday, Work

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  Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

  Betty Friedan

  Birthday, Strength, Inspiring

  "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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  Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Euripides (1931). “Four plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, & Iphigeneia among the Taurians”, Stanford University Press

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• Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

  Narendra Modi

  Desire, Energy, India

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• One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Time, Maturity

  Virginia Woolf (1986). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1912-1918”, Chatto & Windus

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• Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sad, Grief, Reality

  Twitter post from May 27, 2012

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• It takes a long time to become young.

  Pablo Picasso

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  Jean Louis Ferrier, Pablo Picasso (1996). “Picasso”, Vilo International

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• Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Military, Almost Done, Has Beens

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.88

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• Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Heart, Wrinkles, Illusion

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• Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Time, Teenage

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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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Motivational, Education, Time

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Time, Quality, Matter

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• I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue's name.

  Moliere

  Teaching, Names, Blame

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.42, Penguin

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• Youth has no age.

  Pablo Picasso

  Birthday, Time, Age

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth, Honesty, People

  Leo Tolstoy (graf) (194?). “War and peace: a novel”, New York

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

  Franz Kafka

  Happy Birthday, Beauty, Inspirational Birthday

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• Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.

  Samuel Ullman

  Mind, Vigor, Lips

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• The youth is the hope of our future.

  Jose Rizal

  Our Future

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• Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger than you are at this very moment.

  Backseat Goodbye

  Moments, Enjoy

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Glad, Seasons Of Life

  Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

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• No wise man ever wished to be younger.

  Jonathan Swift

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

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