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

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 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

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Dave Barry

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Miller, Henry

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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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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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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

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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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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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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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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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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Seneca

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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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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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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 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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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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

George Bernard Shaw