Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hafiz

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

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

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

W. H. Thompson

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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

Hill, Aaron

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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 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

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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.

21.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Seneca

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

Dave Barry

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

Brookner, Anita

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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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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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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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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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

42.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

James M. Barrie

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

Williams, Carey