Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Euripides

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

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

Jung, Carl

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Dickens, Charles

17.

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

18.

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

Little, Mary

19.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

20.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

21.

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 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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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

24.

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

Williams, Carey

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

Lindsey, Ben

27.

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

Brookner, Anita

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

31.

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

32.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

33.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

34.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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

Wade, H. V.

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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

44.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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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

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril