Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- W. H. Thompson

Best Quotes about Youth

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

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

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

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

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

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

11.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Little, Mary

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

Bible

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

Miller, Henry

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

Hafiz

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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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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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 young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Benchley, Robert

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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.