Inspiring Youth Quotes to Ignite Your Passion and Dreams

"Young people recognize the big challenges that are coming up."

- Barack Obama

"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

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

- Nelson Mandela

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends."

- Mary McLeod Bethune

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

- Maya Angelou

"Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. Because how you treat yourself sets the standard for how others treat you."

- Steve Maraboli

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

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

- Anne Frank

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious."

- Stephen Hawking

"It is what we make out of what we have given, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."

- Nelson Mandela

"If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be."

- Maya Angelou

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done."

- G. M. Trevelyan

"Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

"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. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."

- Sophia Loren

"Even on your worst days, you are always worth love and respect. Don’t ever settle for anything less."

- Hannah Irelan

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"The people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"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."

- Henry David Thoreau

"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."

- Robin Williams

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There's no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen."

- Millicent Simmonds

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

- Mark Twain

"The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"You must always have faith in people. And most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself."

- Elle Woods

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."

- Tyra Banks

"You will always pass failure on your way to success."

- Mickey Rooney

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age."

- Alfred de Vigny

"Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can’t be in life."

- Meg Medina

"The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future."

- Kailash Satyarthi

"Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. Let this be a sign that you’ve got a big heart and aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength."

- Brigitte Nicole

"Stop waiting for something or someone to come and make you happy. Meditate daily. Breathe. Come on. You’re okay. You have friends. Love them. Respect them. Go out and play. Learn to be alone."

- Jennifer Lewis

"My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed."

- LeBron James

"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Note to self: self-love isn’t selfish."

- Dua Lipa

"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up."

- Mary Holloway

"Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world."

- Jack Ma

"We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Dr. Seuss

"Young people willing to push super hard to make something happen are among the most powerful forces in the world."

- Sam Altwoman

"Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that."

- Nikki Reed

"Being confident means believing in yourself. Ego means needing to prove that you’re better than other people."

- Barbara de Angelis

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone."

- Reba McEntire

"We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it."

- Johnny Depp

"Each generation has an obligation to pick up the baton. We want young people to feel a sense of responsibility to take that baton and run with it."

- Valerie Jarrett

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

- Carey Williams

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since."

- Salvador Dali

"I think it’s so important to be comfortable in your own skin."

- James Charles

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."

- Herbert Hoover

"Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mindset of youth today."

- Graça Mache

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

- Rafiki

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

- Henry Ford

"You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us."

- Virginia Satir

"Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future."

- Euripides

"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth."

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."

- J. K. Rowling

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"What I try to tell young people is that if you come together with a mission, and its grounded with love and a sense of community, you can make the impossible possible."

- John Lewis

"Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made. If you push through the hard days, then you can get through anything."

- Gabby Douglas

"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."

- Luella F. Phelan

"We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace."

- Pope Francis

"Young people have a right to optimism, and rightly so; human beings have grown and developed and accomplished wonderful feats in the world."

- Jesmyn Ward

"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

- Franz Kafka

"I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it."

- Ann Richards

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember…the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs."

- Henry Ford

"I always tell young people to hold on to their dreams. And sometimes you have to stand up for what you think is right even if you have to stand alone."

- Claudette Colvin

"Young people need models, not critics."

- John Wooden

"I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world."

- Lois Lowry

"I just want young people to realize that I was like them one day - with a dream."

- Bukayo Saka

"When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music."

- Ellen G. White

"I think young people should travel and travel often to other countries... like I do."

- Henry Rollins

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."

- John W. Gardner

"Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire."

- Pope John Paul II

"I suppose young people think football is glamorous - soccer - it's big money and the stars of it, they look good and have a great big house and a huge Ferrari."

- Bryan Ferry

"I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster."

- Sasha Grey

"I love spending time with young people. I love to hear about what they think. It keeps me young. And they need role models."

- Lynn Schusterman

"The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make."

- Patrick Murphy

"I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going."

- Charles Schwab

"NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people."

- Neil Armstrong

"Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence."

- Ruby Bridges

"My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line."

- Lorde

"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."

- Virginia Woolf

"Use your youth so that you may have the comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof."

- Walter Raleigh

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

- John Milton

"There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless."

- Milan Kundera

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

- Tom Robbins

"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

"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."

- Maya Angelou

"Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 'Tales Of The Jazz Age'

"Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others."

- Hermann Hesse

"When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you."

- Gail Carson Levine

"I wish all teenagers could filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."

- Taylor Swift

"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it’s true."

- Cassandra Clare

"My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time."

- Charles Dickens

"Everyone you admire was once a beginner."

- Jack Butcher

"If you’re making mistakes, it means you’re out there doing something."

- Neil Gaiman

"Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years."

- Taylor Swift

"Grow through what you go through."

- Tyrese Gibson

"After a while, you learn to ignore the names people call you and just trust who you are."

- Shrek

"Youthfulness is about how you live, not when you were born."

- Karl Lagerfeld

"High school is like the training wheels for the bicycle of real life."

- Ghost World

"One of the cruelties of teenage hood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never accurately remember."

- Una LaMarche

"Always admit when you’re wrong. You’ll save thousands in therapy… and a few friendships too."

- Harvey Fierstein

"Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief."

- Nicholas Sparks

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

- Mark Twain

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

- William Shakespeare

"What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability."

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Irish proverb

"What youth learns, age does not forget."

- Danish proverb

"The habits of our youth accompany us in our old age."

- Latin proverb

"On the one hand, maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other, I matured quickly because at a young age, I was very aware of suffering and fear."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear the phone is for you."

- Fran Lebowitz

"Real teenage boys aren’t like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things. They’re still learning, just like you."

- Stacey Jay

"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

"As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager."

- Joe Bob Briggs

"Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it."

- Bob Phillips

"Don't be a cow. Fly up your young life."

- Arif Naseem

"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."

- Carol Burnett

"Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment."

- Hermes, 'The Sea Of Monsters'

"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."

- Ogden Nash

"If you don’t believe in yourself, why is anyone else going to believe in you?"

"The dreams of youth are the blueprints for a better world."

"The spirit of youth is the heartbeat of progress and change."

"Youth is not a phase; it’s a revolution waiting to happen."

"The future belongs to those who dare to dream beyond boundaries."

"Youth is not about age, but about the courage to chase dreams relentlessly."

"Every great accomplishment starts with a youthful dream."

"The energy of youth is the driving force behind progress."

"With determination and passion, youth can move mountains."

"Empowered youth are the catalysts for positive change."

"Youth is the canvas upon which the masterpiece of tomorrow is painted."

"The fire within the hearts of youth lights the path to a brighter future."

"Youthful enthusiasm is the spark that ignites innovation."

"Dreams are the fuel that powers the journey of youth."

"The dreams of today’s youth pave the way for a better tomorrow."

"In the hands of youth lies the power to shape destinies."

"The potential of youth knows no bounds; it’s limitless and boundless."

"The dreams of youth hold the key to unlocking a world of possibilities."

"The youth are the architects of tomorrow’s world."

"With passion as their guide, youth can conquer any obstacle."

"In the heart of every young person lies the potential for greatness."

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice."

"When you replace ‘why is this happening to me’ with ‘what is this trying to teach me?’ Everything shifts."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."