40 Youthful And Inspiring Quotes

In a world overflowing with wisdom and experience, there is something undeniably refreshing about the vibrant energy of youth. Youthful perspectives can ignite our passions, challenge our preconceptions, and inspire us to pursue our dreams with unrelenting fervor. Whether you’re at the beginning of your life’s journey or well along the path, these top 40 youthful and inspiring quotes are sure to resonate, rejuvenate your spirit, and remind you of the boundless possibilities that lie ahead. Dive into a collection designed to uplift and invigorate, as we celebrate the timeless power of youthful inspiration.

1. “Please, touch me, I pray.” - Jess C. Scott

2. “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

3. “It isn't about love," Vee said. "It's about fun.” - Becca Fitzpatrick

4. “Thats the spirit-one part brave,three parts fool.” - Christopher Paolini

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

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

7. “It was the world-without-adults daydream. In my dream I'd never quite figured out where the adults went but we kids were free to roam, to help ourselves to anything we wanted. We'd pick up a Merc from a showroom when we wanted wheels, and when it ran out of petrol we'd get another one. We'd change cars the way I change socks. We'd sleep in different mansions every night, going to new houses instead of putting new sheets on the beds. Life would be one long party.Yes, that had been the dream.” - John Marsden

8. “One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.” - Sam levenson

9. “Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.” - Nikolai Gogol

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

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

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 would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?” - Elizabeth Berg

14. “I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?” - Jess C. Scott

15. “I believe in recovery, and 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

16. “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement” - Jess C. Scott

17. “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

18. “Tolerance cannot seduce the young.” - Emil Cioran

19. “The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima—the “eternal present.” - H.E. Davey

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

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

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

23. “I knew that most people would consider us too young to talk about lifelong commitments or marriage, but I couldn’t imagine taking her to bed without that promise. Even if it meant never being with her, I didn’t want to have one desperate, hurried, hidden night. I wanted to put a ring on her finger. I wanted a future—or nothing. I knew, in her heart, that she would want that, too” - Beth Fantaskey

24. “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

25. “Fasal liked to fight; Jiaan was good at planning. Together, Jiaan thought sourly, they almost made a whole officer. And if you added Jiaan's eighteen years to Fasal's seventeen, you had someone old enough to command an army as well.” - Hilari Bell

26. “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

27. “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

28. “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

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

32. “If the wild filly, "Progress," thou wouldst ride,Have young companions ever at thy side;But wouldst thou stride the stanch old mare, "Success,"Go with thine elders, though they please thee less.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

33. “Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart.” - Gregory Maguire

34. “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

35. “I was nineteen years five months old when I fell in love for the first time. This seemed to me a profound, advanced age; never can we anticipate being older than we are, or wiser; if we're exhausted, it's impossible to anticipate being strong; as, in the grip of a dream, we rarely understand that we're dreaming, and will escape by the simplest of methods, opening our eyes.” - Joyce Carol Oates

36. “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

37. “What you did when you were young could kill you. It just might take years to do it.” - Courtney Milan

38. “I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.” - Wendelin Van Draanen

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

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