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

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Proverb, French

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

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

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

Dave Barry

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

Brookner, Anita

10.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

13.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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

15.

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

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

Seneca

18.

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

Little, Mary

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

21.

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

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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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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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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

25.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kafka, 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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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

33.

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

34.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Willa Cather

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

44.

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

Jung, Carl

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.