Motivational Quotes

Youth

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, 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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

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

Williams, Carey

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, French

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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 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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Seneca

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 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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Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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

W. H. Thompson

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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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

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.