Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb, French

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

31.

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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Dave Barry

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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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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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Wade, H. V.

44.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von