Motivational Quotes

Youth

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

10.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

11.

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

W. H. Thompson

12.

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

Miller, Henry

13.

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

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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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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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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

17.

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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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

20.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

21.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

22.

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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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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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

26.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

30.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

31.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

32.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

33.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

34.

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

35.

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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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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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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

40.

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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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

43.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

45.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

46.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

48.

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.