Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- W. H. Thompson

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Bible

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

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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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 should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Proverb, French

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

Geraldy, Paul

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

32.

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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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

Coco Chanel

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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

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The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

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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

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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