Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Youth

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

10.

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

James M. Barrie

11.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Little, Mary

15.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

25.

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

Euripides

26.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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.

30.

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

31.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

33.

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

Jung, Carl

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Willa Cather

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

Seneca

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

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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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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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