Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Dave Barry

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

George Bernard Shaw

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Williams, Carey

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 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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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 let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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 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, 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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Richards, Ann

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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