Motivational Quotes

Youth

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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

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

Dickens, Charles

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Seneca

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

10.

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

George Bernard Shaw

11.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

12.

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 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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

15.

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

Hill, Aaron

16.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

18.

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

James M. Barrie

19.

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

Jung, Carl

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

23.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Brookner, Anita

26.

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

27.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

28.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

29.

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

Miller, Henry

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

37.

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

Dave Barry

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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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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

40.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

42.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

44.

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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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

46.

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

Lindsey, Ben

47.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

48.

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

49.

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

Williams, Carey

50.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith