Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Brookner, Anita

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

James M. Barrie

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

10.

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

11.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Geraldy, Paul

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

18.

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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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Seneca

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

Hafiz

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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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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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.