Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

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

James M. Barrie

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Dickens, Charles

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dave Barry

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

Miller, Henry

23.

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

Bible

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

W. H. Thompson

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Brookner, Anita

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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

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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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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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