36 Inspiring Quotes For Youth

In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving world, the youth are constantly seeking motivation and encouragement to navigate their journey with confidence and resilience. Words have the incredible power to inspire, uplift, and ignite change, serving as guiding lights in moments of uncertainty. We've curated a collection of 36 inspiring quotes tailored specifically for young individuals, aiming to fuel their passions, dreams, and ambitions. Whether you're a student, a young professional, or simply someone looking for a bit of inspiration, these quotes are designed to ignite your inner spark and propel you towards greatness. Dive in and let these words resonate with your aspirations, encouraging you to create the extraordinary life you're capable of achieving.

1. “Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.” - R.A. Salvatore

2. “I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.” - Santosh Kalwar

3. “O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!” - Toba Beta

4. “The human body is the best work of art.” - Jess C. Scott

5. “They envy your youth. You two are like exotic creatures from the land of the young.’I’ve never understood all that these-are-the-best-years-of-your-life crap. If this is as good as it gets then I might as well quit now. Let me get to the shimmery oasis of adulthood.” - Leanne Hall

6. “The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.” - J.M. Barrie

7. “My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.” - Jess C. Scott

8. “Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.” - Karl Lagerfeld

9. “Enjoy your youth.You'll never be younger thanyou are at this very moment.” - Chad Sugg

10. “When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.” - Brigitte Bardot

11. “All geniuses die young.” - Groucho Marx

12. “If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.” - Elizabeth Berg

13. “I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.” - Dodie Smith (Cassandra Mortmain, I Capture the Castle)

14. “Those sweet lips. My, oh my, I could kiss those lips all night long.Good things come to those who wait.” - Jess C. Scott

15. “When you're young, you say what you feel.When you're adult, you speak what you think.When you grow old, you listen to what nature says.” - Toba Beta

16. “How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off.” - Jodi Picoult

17. “Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter” - Richard Due

18. “You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn” - Richard Due

19. “Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb” - Richard Due

20. “Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.” - Oscar Wilde

21. “Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

22. “There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.” - Criss Jami

23. “People don't love each other at our age —they please each other, that's all. Later on when you're old and impotent, you can love somebody. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.” - Albert Camus

24. “At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.” - Chris Van Allsburg

25. “All four of us were young and undaunted and our smiles were so strong that it made me smile even then on the couch, with a kind of loss.” - Markus Zusak

26. “Why did so many grown-ups want to be young, she wondered, when it took so long to grow old? It was like going on a million-mile road trip then wanting to turn around without getting out of the car.” - Pseudonymous Bosch

27. “Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.” - Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

28. “All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself” - Zelda Fitzgerald

29. “What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose.Drinking and smoking over and overWhat's so great about a life that's sober?There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.I'm tired of searching for words in the sky.All I wanna do is drink and die. Nothing is real. It's all a big lie. All I wanna do is drink and die. There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.” - Benjamin Alire Saenz

30. “Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more." (About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight)” - Stephen Noce

31. “What about young age? You will be miserable all through your 15 years to reach that goal of $10 million. After 50years, even if you pay a million to get back a week of your time at 35, you will never get that. Your beer will taste very different when you are at 50 from how it tasted at 30.” - Ravindra Shukla

32. “He was a student - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to students. He was a German - such things as happened to him, happen sometimes to Germans. He was young, handsome, studious, enthusiastic, metaphysical, reckless, unbelieving, heartless.And being young, handsome, and eloquent he was beloved. ("The Cold Embrace")” - Mary Elizabeth Braddon

33. “When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.” - Belinda Jeffrey

34. “However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life hurt.That the words were just words on a page, but in real life, the pain was immense. Trials and tribulations to prove your love were exactly that, trials and tribulations.” - Kristen Ashley

35. “Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.” - Jacquelyn Mitchard

36. “When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish.” - Steve Maraboli