83 Youth Quotes

Youth, Learning, and Character

The lessons we learn when we are young often stay with us for life. These quotes remind us how reading, faith, and good examples can help shape our character.

The books you read in your youth shape your thoughts and your character.
Theodore W. Higginsworth

Thanks for investing in the lives of youth! I pray that your work on behalf of pre-teens and teens will bear much fruit.
Mark J Musser, 20 Youth Lessons to Counter Culture

Youth, beauty, wit may recommend you to men, but only faith in Jesus Christ can recommend you to God.
James H. Aughey

Your mind is a garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.
Unknown

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

Aches and pains remind us we do not stay young forever - youth fades every day, something all can never sever.
Catherine Pulsifer, No One Immune To

Turning 25 doesn't mean you've lost your youth; it signifies the transition to a more mature and experienced version of yourself. Embrace the wisdom that comes with age, and let your youthful spirit continue to shine brightly.

In middle age ...we can't go back to our younger selves, youth is left at the gate.
Catherine Pulsifer, Discovering

Keep young by living life and continuing to be bold.
Catherine Pulsifer, Over The Hill

When we are young our lives lay before us, but don't waste it, set your goals, take action today as the years pass quickly.
Catherine Pulsifer

Truth, Hope, and Young Ideas

Young people bring fresh ideas and a hopeful outlook. These words encourage honesty, imagination, and the courage to see things differently.

Truth is best in age and youth. Speak the truth!
Unknown, Speak The Truth

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown.
Margaret Mead

By combining a natural look with a modern perspective you can create a personal style that's unexpected, youthful and fresh.
Sherrie Mathieson, Forever Cool

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle

'Twas like a dream of my childhood hours, this happy growing-time, that spoke the poetry of youth, when life itself was rhyme.
C. D. Barrett, The Seasons

And weave for your souls the fair garments of honor and beauty and truth, which will still with a glory enfold you when faded the spell of your youth.
Emily Bugbee Johnson

Happiness, Love, and Growing Up

Youth brings new experiences, friendships, and important choices. These quotes remind us to enjoy the present while learning to look toward the future.

When you are young don't wait for tomorrow to be happy, be happy today. As Randy Alcorn wrote in his book, Happiness: "Anyone who waits for happiness will never be happy."

You show me a world-class youth sports organization built on good morals and values, I will show you a great leader who dreamed it and great leaders who are running it every day.
Andrew Simpson, The Youth Truth

In ... established democracies, survey evidence from recent elections shows that more young people voting definitely would make a difference because the youth vote often favors different candidates and parties.
Martin P. Wattenberg, Is Voting for Young People?

There is no other love like the love of youth
Unknown, A Rainy Day

Turning 21 is like opening a door to a world of possibilities. It's the moment when youth embarks on the journey of adulthood, carrying the torch of dreams and aspirations into a bright future.

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.
Unknown, Age Is Opportunity

...in your youth you may strive to please the living God, — 'twill give you peace.
Maria J. Dodge, To My Friend

You're young and buoyant, and for you hope beckons with her hands and life spreads out a waveless sea that laps but tropic strands
Will T. Hale, Don't Forget The Old Folks

We still love you, no matter the age - in our minds, we will always be teenage!
Catherine Pulsifer, Over The Hill?

Staying Young at Heart

Growing older does not mean losing our joy or sense of adventure. These quotations celebrate memories, family, and the youthful spirit we can carry throughout life.

A wiser youth has come to me while you were turning gray.
Strickland Gillilan, Keep Young At Heart

Clasp me close in your warm young arms, while the pale stars shine above, and we’ll live our whole young lives away in the joys of a living love.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Max Ehrmann

The youth, from all sorrow, temptation and care, seeks the warm mother heart and finds comfort there
Kate Louise Wheeler

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Today is the day we sing Happy Birthday,
as today thirty years ago you were born.
Hard to believe your now thirty,
your youth is now gone
Julie Hebert, Your Thirty

Sometimes it's only the young ones who are crazy enough to change the world.
Diana Peterfreund

Youths sparkle and bubble with life. They are fun-loving, excited, ambitious, adventurous, energetic, and curious
Idowu Omisore, Invest Your Youthful Years

To youth, Time moves with steps of lagging tread and hence they deem to all his flight is slow.
Maria Frink, Years Slip By

Dreams, Ambition, and the Future

The years of youth are filled with possibilities. These quotes encourage young people to dream, learn, take action, and use their gifts for good.

Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back.
Anne Lamott

The stages of life happen so fast youth was yesterday but now has past
Catherine Pulsifer, Another Year

A grandparent celebrates their youth through the eyes of their grandchildren.
Robert R. Rivers

But merciful Nature makes amends, when she sends youth, that takes up our raveled ends
John T. Trowbridge

Make your mark; make it while the arm is strong, in the golden hours of youth
David Barker, Make Your Mark

The challenge is to build relational supports that can serve as new tribes for children and youth. The family, school, faith organization, and community all have the potential to help fill this void.
Larry K. Brendtro, Reclaiming Youth at Risk

When you first teach a youth to read and write you give the key to a lifelong delight.
James B. Wiggin, Teach A Child

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Douglas MacArthur

O youth, choose wisdom while you may; let those who will choose pelf.
Lorain McLain, The Wise Choice

Wisdom, Faith, and Guidance for Youth

Young people benefit from encouragement and guidance as they find their way. These quotes reflect on wisdom, faith, and the importance of helping the next generation.

I strongly believe that children and youth can lead the way in reimagining the world of tomorrow.
Madhish Parikh

So we turn, soul-sick with yearning, to the sweet beliefs of youth!
Unknown, Retrospection

When I was younger I had such great dreams; I had things all planned, my head full of schemes
Greta Zwaan, Lord I'm So Lonely

When youth comes much passes through their thoughts, -which is not thou, and much allures their hearts, - which thou hast not.
Unknown, How Soon We Lose Them

Now youthful fair, throughout out land, in that crisis step that must joy or grief imparty beware! nor e'er bestow the hand, till likewise you give the heart.
Lillian E. Curtis, The Hand Without The Heart

What an eternal difference it would make if churches and youth groups around the world caught this vision to put the gospel at the center of their teachings, Bible studies, retreats, small groups, mission trips, and service projects.
Collin Hansen

The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.
Roman Payne

Youth are not approaching the gates of life; they are the cornerstones of the gate.
Theodore W. Higgingsworth

Given the lack of glory associated with ministry to youth and the personal emotional and physical cost of serving youth, a person who stays in the field ... must see something extraordinarily precious that outweighs every difficulty.
Cameron Cole, Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry

Youth, Patience, and the Passing Years

Time changes our outlook, but the beauty and lessons of youth remain. These words remind us to value patience, love, and the memories we make.

Youth and love are oft impatient, seeking things beyond their reach
Sarah Doudney, The Hardest Time Of All

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

There are no days like the good old days, - the days when we were youthful!
Eugene Field , Old Times, Old Friends, Old Love

A dark unfathomed tide of interminable pride - a mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem
Edgar Allan Poe , Imitation

Grandchildren bless their Grandparents with a youthful vitality and innocence that helps them stay young at heart forever.
Unknown, Grandparents Bestow

Winter? But Spring will come after, and youth must grow old with the years.
Charles S. Poling

To scorn or act with prejudice towards an adult is pitiful but to shun a youth, to fail to encourage or equip them with the essentials is to forsake the future.
Byron R. Pulsifer

It never pays! a blunt refrain, well worthy of a song, for age and youth
must learn the truth, that nothing pays that's wrong.
Unknown, It Never Pays

Therefore, what parents and the ruling generation owe their children and generations afar are the rebirth of a vibrant civil society and restoration of a vigorous constitutional republic
Mark R. Levin, Plunder and Deceit

Supporting and Encouraging Young People

Our words and actions can make a lasting difference in a young person’s life. These quotes encourage adults to offer understanding, good examples, and genuine support.

To increase our national security, our first priority should be intellectual capital and a sustainable infrastructure of education, health and social services to provide for the continuing development and growth of America’s youth.
Tony Wagner, Creating Innovators

You don’t have to work with troubled youth for object lessons to be effective. And object lessons aren’t just for children.
Helen Musick, Everyday Object Lessons for Youth Groups

Healing of the mind, emotions, and spirit is possible ... It will also ... involve the work of God through the Holy Spirit ... But the God who restored an entire nation ...can also restore to emotional wholeness a young man or woman who turns to Him.
Handbook on Counseling Youth

TODAY — ...
Encourage youth. Manifest your loyalty in a word or a deed.
Author Unknown, Today

The memory of our youthful hours, as green as those said sprays and boughs. As fresh and sweet as those said flowers.
Henry Howard Brownell, The Lawyer's Invocation To Spring

Family, Friendship, and the Promise of Youth

Family and friendship help young people feel valued and supported. These quotes celebrate the bonds and opportunities that make growing up meaningful.

Sisters share the innocence, imagination, and adventure of youth.
Michelle Malm Sister Quotes

There are signs of a renewed respect for the importance of "practice wisdom" in building a knowledge base of professional child and youth work.
Larry K. Brendtro; Martin Brokenleg; Steve Van Bockern, Reclaiming Youth at Risk

The world lies waiting for youth's freshning touch in richest promise lastingly endowed
Dorothy Whiston, Ode

Now we are young and gay...now in our upward journey may true love make us brave, we'll fret not for the morrow,
Unknown, Now We Are Young

The good you may do in the young part of life, will help you to conquer your trials and strife.
David J. Cable, Make Your Life

Here Mother Nature never tires and droops her head upon her breast; beneath the scorching summer fires she keeps her youth and looks her best.
Edgar A. Guest , The Green of Michigan

Let friendship and truth encompass our youth, from sorrow and trouble 'twill save
John Imrie , A Bouquet Of Flowers

Allow the words to motivate you to do something good. The Bible says, “Young people, enjoy your youth."
Paula Gray, Girl

Memories of Youth and Looking Ahead

Youth does not last forever, but its memories and lessons can stay with us. These quotations invite us to appreciate the past while remaining hopeful about the years ahead.

Days of youth are not forever, yet the future is not bleak.
Greta Zwaan, Memories of Life Poems About Memories

My goodly cloathing, and my beauteous skin declare some greater riches are within
Anne Bradstreet The Four Ages Of Man

Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.
Freeman Dyson

My regrets to the man without vision of youth, who has turned a deaf ear to the promptings of truth
David V. Bush

Bless the laughing, shouting boys...may they think of God in youth, and grow up in grace and truth.
Unknown, When We Were Boys

We may grow older, slower, or laden with wrinkles but the memories of our youth are like the sunshine after the rain clouds have passed.
Annabelle Marie Haines

For the past decade—because of my youthful appearance, physical fitness, and high energy—people have been surprised when they find out how old I am.
Narc Narcisse, How Does He Do It?

It is interesting to know that the futures of any family, race, creed or nation are their youths ... The strength of any establishment is in their youth.
Sheun Deleige, Maximizing Youthful Times

Midlife is the old age of youth and the youth of old age.
Proverbs