Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Youth

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

10.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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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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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

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Brookner, Anita

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Seneca

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Jung, Carl

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

Williams, Carey

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Rimbaud, Arthur