200 Quotes About Youth To Inspire The Next Generation

The future holds promises and dreams for the youth that can be achieved through hard work, dedication, planning, education and words of wisdom.

The best advice for young people often comes from older people who have lived their youth, so can share some word of advice as motivational quotes for youth today. These quotes for young people are encouraging words for youth that make them dream big encourage them to achieve these dreams.

Literally speaking, youth is the transitional age between childhood and adulthood. However, philosophically speaking, youth is a state of mind that we should all embrace from time to time. Some of the best times in life come during our youth. Adventures and good memories with friends from youth are cherished the most. What one learns at this young age, the company that he keeps, the path that he follows and the lessons of life he takes makes a person what he will become tomorrow!

Thus, youth is an extremely important time in everyone’s life. The youth of a nation are its leaders of tomorrow and so it is vital to educate them with good and strong values and deep thoughts. Inspiring quotes for youth groups or youth leadership quotes can be an excellent way to motivate them.

Being young is fun. The youth are physically strong, naturally more curious, and love taking risks and enjoying life. To keep up with this free spirit, it is essential to keep them encouraged. Here are some amazing sayings about youth and youth inspirational quotes that will help them to see what they can achieve in their youth and beyond. For more motivating youth quotes, check out these teen life quotes and [inspiring quotes for teens] too!

Youth quotes a way to show young people the meaning of life. Famous people have written many younger generation quotes related to different aspects of youth and life. These youth inspirational words are good to read to young people today as they teach valuable life lessons.

1. “Youth has no age.”                                                                                                                            

– Pablo Picasso.

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

– Pearl S. Buck.

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

- Natalie Clifford Barney.

4. 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.”                                        

- Walter Raleigh.

5. “Youth's the season made for joys, love is then our duty.”                                

– John Gay.

6. “Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done.”    

– G. M. Trevelyan.

7. “Your life, time, and brain should belong to you, not to an institution.”      

 — Grace Llewellyn.

8. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

– Anne Frank, 'Anne Frank's Tales From The Secret Annex'.

9. “Aspire to inspire before we expire.”                                                                        

– Unknown*.

10. “Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”

– Henry David Thoreau.

11. "Whatever you do, do it well."

– Walt Disney.

12. “You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

– Mark Twain.

13. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”        

– Vince Lombardi.

14. “You have to grow from the inside out.”        

– Swami Vivekananda.

15. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”  

– Albert Einstein.

16. “The world belongs to the energetic.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Youth inspiration does not only come from youth quotes by famous philosophers, leaders or successful people. Some teen movie quotes have stunning quotes and motivational dialogues too!

17. “After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are.”                                                                                                                   – Shrek, 'Shrek', 2001.

18. “We're all pretty bizarre. Some of us are just better at hiding it."

– Andrew, 'The Breakfast Club', 1985.

19. “Do, or do not. There is no “try"."

– Yoda, 'Star Wars', 2008.

20. "I just wanna let them know that they didn't break me."

– Molly, 'Pretty In Pink', 1986.

21. “Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.”

–Rafiki, 'The Lion King', 2019.

22. "I feel infinite."

– Charlie, 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower', 2012.

23. “High school is like the training wheels for the bicycle of real life.”  

– Graduation speaker, 'Ghost World', 2001.

24. “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.”

– Forrest Gump, 'Forrest Gump', 1994.

25. “I don’t regret the things I’ve done, but those I did not do.”  

– Lucas, 'Empire Records', 1995.

26. “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

– Ferris Bueller, 'Ferris Bueller’s Day Off', 1986.

27. "I define being the best as competing against the best there is out there and beating them."

– Torrance, 'Bring It On', 2000.

28. “We are who we choose to be.”

–  Green Goblin, 'Spider-Man', 2017.

29. “Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it’s not some place you can look for because it’s not where you go.”

– Richard, 'The Beach', 2000

Youth is wasted on the young quotes are very popular, as are quotes all about remembering youth. Why not share one of these powerful quotes about youth with a young person who needs some inspiration today?

30. “Enjoy the power of your beauty and your youth.”

-  Baz Luhrmann.

31. “But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.”

- Pablo Neruda.

32. “Youth is a gift of nature but age is a work of art.”

– Stanislav Lee.

33. “You're here to continually push forward and move forward. That's where I'm at - I just want to always surprise people.”

- Maxwell.

34. “Make each day your masterpiece.”

– John Wooden.

35. “In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.”

– Dick Cavett.

36. “This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.”

-  Bernardo Bertolucci.

37. "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.”

-  J. B. Priestley .

The impression we make on young minds matters! Stunning youth quotes are not just mere words. These words have a striking meaning, these quotes mainly aimed at young people teach respect for life and others, humility, good behavior and help in developing confidence.

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

 – Euripides.

39. "Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle, 0ld age a regret."

- Benjamin Disraeli.

40. “You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair.”

- Luella F. Phan.

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

- Carey Williams.

42. “Joy of youth, dream of youth, blood of youth, mood of youth, clothe the world with colors golden, singing songs that never olden.”

- Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.

43. “There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love.”

- Sophia Loren.

44. “The most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still in school.”

― Hermann Hesse, 'Gertrude'.

45. “The whims of youth break all the rules.”

– Homer.

46. “Youth is wasted on the young.”

– George Bernard Shaw.

47. “My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”

—Indira Gandhi.

48. “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”

– J. K. Rowling.

49. “It takes a very long time to become young.”

– Pablo Picasso.

50. “Only to children children sing, Only to youth will spring be spring.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson.

51. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”  

– Epictetus.

52. “A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again.”

― Roy H. Williams.

53. “Sometimes you face difficulties you’re doing something wrong, but because you’re doing something right.”

– Joel Osteen.

54. “Don’t downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny.”

– Stuart Scott.

Keeping the young generation motivated is seen by some as the duty of those older. There are thousands of motivational messages for the youth that have been delivered by great minds. Here are a few of the most powerful ones.

55. “The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.”

– Chanakya.

56. "Young people need models, not critics."

- John Wooden.

57. “Everything started as nothing.”

– Ben Weissenstein.

58. “You always pass failure on the way to success.”

– Mickey Rooney.

59. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

- George Eliot.

60. “Build yourself up to stand out and be recognized in a crowd.”

― Ansuman Bhagat, 'Your Own Thought : A Lot Of Thoughts'.

61. “Yesterday you said tomorrow. Just do it.”

–  Nike.

62. “Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.”

- Christian Nestell Bovee.

63. "It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise."

-  Mark Twain.

64. “When you replace 'why is this happening to me' with 'what is this trying to teach me?' Everything shifts.”

― Unknown*.

65. “Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

― Napoleon Hill.

66. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

– Nelson Mandela.

67. “When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”

—Thomas Jefferson.

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

- Coco Chanel.

69. “The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”

– Swami Vivekananda.

70. “We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.”

– Vince Lombardi.

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

– Joe E. Lewis.

72. “One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.”

― Sophocles.

73. “When you're young, everything feels like the end of the world, but it's not; it's just the beginning.”

- Zac Efron.

74. “Life’s not about waiting for the storms to pass... it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

—B.J. Gallagher.

75. “The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown.”                                                

— Margaret Mea.

76. “There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all.”

― Edward de Bono.

77. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

– Maya Angelou.

78. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It’s not.”

– Dr. Seuss.

Youth is not a number that can be counted with birthday candles! You are as young as you feel and every moment of life offers new opportunities. These youth quotes will inspire you to do your best and enjoy life to the fullest. Many older people who are young at heart still enjoy youthfulness, maybe not in age but certainly in spirit. For generations, inspiring quotes about youth have been noted down to show the young generation the right path in life. These quotes for young adults can bring a sea change in thinking and bring about positive changes in the way they see and live life.

79. “The secret of growing younger is counting blessings, not birthdays.”

– Barbara Johnson.

80. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

― Henry Ford.

81. “Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born.”

– Karl Lagerfeld.

82. “The young are not afraid of telling the truth.”

– Anne Frank, 'The Diary Of A Young Girl'.

83. "Youth comes but once in a lifetime."

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

84. "Man's own youth is the world's youth."

- Nathaniel Hawthorne.

85. "We all know we're young. We're just trying to stay positive. We're making young mistakes."

– Gerry Kraemer.

86. "There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later."  

- Mignon McLaughlin.

87. "The passions of the young are vices in the old."  

- Joseph Joubert.

88. “In youth we learn; in age we understand.”  

-Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach..

89. “[It] is the juvenile period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.”

– George Washington.

90. “Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated.”

– Dianne Wiest.

91. “The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.”                                    

– Luella F. Phean.

It is important to teach leadership qualities to young people. Popular youth leadership quotes from people like Benjamin Disraeli are all about what to do to be a real leader. Listed here are some inspirational quotes for young people and quotes about youth leadership. These will surely help you engage your state of mind and make the best use of your time.

92. "To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods."

-  Benjamin Disraeli.

93. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte.

94. “You don’t have to hold a position in order to be a leader.”

– Henry Ford.

95. “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”

–  John C. Maxwell.

96. “Leaders are never satisfied; they continually strive to be better.”

–  Brian Tracy.

97. “My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”

— General Montgomery.

98. “To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.”

- Pat Riley.

99. “The price of excellence is discipline; the cost of mediocrity is disappointment.”

— William Arthur Ward.

100. “Take risks in your life... If you win, you may lead. If you lose, you may guide.”

- Swami Vivekananda.

101. “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”

– Michael Jordan.

102. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt.

103. “He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.”

– Niccolò Machiavelli.

104. “Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.”

– Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

105. “The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers.”

—Gary Wills.

106. “The word impossible is not in my dictionary.”  

– Napoleon Bonaparte.

107. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson.

108. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

– Henry David Thoreau.

109. “Old minds have the power to create history, young minds have the power to change the history.”

― Dr. P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar.

110. “The more conscious we become of what limits us, the more limitless becomes our life.”  

— Guy Finley.

111. “It hurts because it mattered.”

– John Green.

112. “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”

—Theodore M. Hesburgh.

113. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

– John F. Kennedy.

114. “If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you.”

– Tom Brady.

115. “Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up.”

– Barack Obama.

116. “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”

– Alexander the Great.

117. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.”

– Maya Angelou.

118. “The young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.”

– Malcolm X, 'Black Liberation, And The Road To Workers'.

119. “Some people get everything in legacy, while some work hard to build the legacy.”

― Kuldeep Sharma.

120. “Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk but no flowers grow.”  

– Vincent Van Gogh.

121. “The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.”

– Matty Mullins.

122. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

– Malala Yousafzai.

123. “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people.”

– Brian Tracy.

124. “Your aim is yours, so don’t change it for others.”

– Swami Vivekananda.

125. "Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”

– Oprah Winfrey.

126. “The distance between dreams and reality is action.”

- Ben Francia.

127. “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”

– Muhammad Ali.

128. “Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.”

– Abraham Lincoln.

Words of wisdom can change the way we look at life. Short quotes on youth and inspiring quotes for young adults are often taught in schools and used in inspirational literary work. The minds of young people are like a sponge that can soak in lots of good thoughts. These short quotes with deep meanings must be pondered over. One must always stop and think if they are taking action to pursue their goals. In such times, reading such inspirational quotes on any given day will help you bring out your best self and pursue the precious time of life.

129. “Fame is the thirst of youth.”

– Lord Byron.

130. “Enjoy your youth. You’ll never be younger than you are at this very moment.”

– Chad Sugg.

131. “The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”

– Kurt Cobain.

132. “Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.”

– Milan Kundera.

133. “The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.”

― Aldous Huxley.

134. “Don't be a cow. Fly up your young life.”

 ― Arif Naseem.

135. “The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”

- Mark Twain.

136. “Never let your emotions overpower your intelligence.”

– Drake.

137. “You're young and you have all your life ahead of you.”

– J. Lynn.

138. “Some see a weed, some see a wish.”

-  Cynthia Bond.

139. “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”  

― Isaac Asimov.

140. “Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.”

– Grandmother Willow, 'Pocahontas'.

141. “Nothing lasts forever but at least we got these memories.”

– J. Cole.

142. “When you're young you just run, but you come back to what you need.”

–Taylor Swift, ‘This Love’.

143. “Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”

― John Holt.

144. “Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.”

– Jessica N. S. Yourko.

145. “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt.

146. “I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”

– Carl Gustav Jung.

Inspiring young people to take charge of their life is not an easy task. It is vital to make the young generation realize the importance of their part in society. Quotes about youth empowerment are young people quotes that tell them to dream, set goals, and work towards achieving goals. These quotes on youth empowerment also tell them how to keep their curiosity and enthusiasm alive to learn more and succeed in life.

147. “Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.”

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller.

148. “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”

—Louis L’Amour.

149. “The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.”

– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

150. “Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!”

― Garth Brooks.

151. “You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.”

― Abraham Maslow.

152. “Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.”

- Ratan Tata.

153. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got.”

– R. Brault.

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

– George Bernard Shaw.

155. “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

― Albert Einstein.

156. “Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark, but professionals built the Titanic.”

― Unknown*.

157. “Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.”

― Francis Bacon.

158. “People learn more quickly by doing something or seeing something done.”  

― Gilbert Highet.

159. “Tough times never last but tough people do.”

– Robert H. Schuller.

160. “Learning never exhausts the mind.”

― Leonardo Da Vinci.

161. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

—Brian Tracy.

162. “A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”

– Mark Twain.

163. "Bloom where you are planted."

- French proverb.

164. “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

-Thomas Edison.

165. “A handful of lionhearts can wake the whole world up.”

― Abhijit Naskar.

166. "This celebrates all the great things youth do instead of the negative things you sometimes hear about."

– Karen Lee.

167. “Confidence is contagious. So is the lack of confidence.”

—Vince Lombardi.

168. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.”

― Mark Twain.

Quote about youth being the future help young people to realize how important it is for them to grow into fine adults to maintain and take control of their prosperity. It is these young people who will lead tomorrow and make decisions for everyone.  These youth motivation quotes with deep meanings signify the importance of the new generation and how the youth is the future of the world.

169. "Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day."

-John Milton.

170. “The youth is the hope of our future.”

- Jose Rizal.

171. “This is a time for bold measures. This is the country, and you are the generation.”

— Bono.

172. "Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world."

– Gilbert K Chesterton.

173. “One day, the people that don’t even believe in you will tell everyone how they met you.”

– Johnny Depp.

174. "The meaning of life is to give life meaning."

– Ken Hudgins.

175. "Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him."

- Orison Swett Marden.

176. “You cannot change your future. But you can change your habits.  And surely your habits will change your future.”

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.

177. “When we're young, everything is possible; when we're old, possibilities are everything.”

– Mardy Grothe.

178. "We need as many youth team scouts as possible."

- Iain Dowie.

179. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

- Abraham Lincoln.

180. "The youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."

-  Benjamin Disraeli.

181. “Young people have limited choices, but they are also useful human resources.”

– Santosh Kalwar.

182. “Study the past if you want to define the future.”

- Confucius.

183. “The future starts today, not tomorrow.”

- Pope John Paul II.

184. “Find a need and fill it.”

– Ruth Stafford Peale.

185. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt.

Proverbs are sayings that have been passed on from generation to generation. These wise sayings are often short but have wonderful meanings related to life. Proverbs about youth exist in every country and they apply to young people all around the globe. These proverbs are as good as any youth quotes by famous personalities as they too can change the outlook of the youth.

186. “Young people don’t know what age is and old people forget what youth was.”

– English proverb.

187. “If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.”

- English proverb.

188. “Youth does not mind where it sets its foot.”

- English proverb.                                                                                                                                    

189. “The youth can walk faster but the elder knows the road.”

– African proverb.

190. “Where you sit when you are old shows where you stood in the youth.”

– African proverb.

191. “The habits of our youth accompany us in our old age.”

– Latin proverb.

192. “We pay when old for the excesses of youth.”

– Latin proverb.

193. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

– Zen proverb.

194. "The schoolhouse bell sounds bitter in the youth and sweet in old age.”

– Irish proverb.

195. “What youth learns, age does not forget.”

- Danish proverb.

196. “Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone.”

– Moroccan proverb.

197. “The memories of one's youth make for long, long thoughts.”  

– Finnish proverb.

198. “Age is honorable and youth is noble.”

- Irish proverb.

199. “Cherish youth, but trust old age.”

– Native American proverb.

200. “Guard your tongue in youth, and in age, you may mature a thought that will be of service to your people.”

– Native American Sioux proverb.

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