The 50 best quotes about youth

Several reflections and aphorisms about this vital stage marked by energy and curiosity.

The phrases of youth pronounced or written by influential thinkers of the history are usually interesting reflections on one of the most intense stages of life. Artists, politicians and philosophers such as José Ortega Y Gasset, Albert Einstein or John Wooden have formulated memorable aphorisms and phrases that still resonate despite the passage of time.

The most interesting phrases of youth

It is considered one of the most energetic and creative stages of the human being. An age in which the feverish mood stands out as well as the immaturity.

A difficult stage to understand but many celebrities have wanted to emphasize its importance with phrases of youth. Below we will see a selection of these.

1. Young people today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, devour their food, and disrespect their teachers (Socrates).

This phrase of Socrates is a reflection to the situations he observed in young people in his time.

• You may be interested in; "70 phrases of Socrates to understand his thought".

There are no bad young people, only misguided young people (St. John Bosco)

This phrase avoids burdening young people with moral responsibility.

3. Young people need to believe, a priori, that they are superior. Of course it is wrong, but this is precisely the great right of youth (José Ortega Y Gasset).

A reflection on the attitude of youth to the world.

4. The youth has its struggle, which is to overthrow the surrendering oligarchies, the misleaders and the foreign interests that exploit us (Arturo Jauretche).

The revolutionary expression in the spirit of the youth is well known and natural.

5. The important thing for a young man is to establish his character, a reputation and a credit (John D. Rockefeller).

From Rockefeller's point of view a young man needs these elements to develop.

6. One can acquire knowledge and consciousness throughout one's life, but never again in any other period of one's existence will a person have the purity and selflessness with which, as a young man, he faces life (Fidel Castro).

Youth endows us with a strength that we must take advantage of, because after a while it will not be the same.

7. The path of youth takes a lifetime (Pablo R. Picasso)

Pablo Picasso's youthful phrase, with a touch of paradox.

8. Youth is fleeting (Horace)

It is one of the stages that, as well as intense, is usually short.

9. Among you, young people, is where I find myself well (St. John Bosco)

It is always pleasant to feel the joy that often exists among young people.

10. I remember my youth and that feeling that will never return. The feeling that I could outlast everything, outlast the sea, outlast the earth, outlast all men (Joseph Conrad).

A phrase that contains nostalgia for times gone by.

11. The fundamental clay of our work is the youth, in it we deposit our hope and we prepare it to take the flag from our hands (Ernesto "Che" Guevara).

It has been considered as the best vital stage, in which we can easily undertake the greatest projects.

12. Some are very critical when referring to today's youth and forget that they were once young themselves. It would be an illusion to pretend that the new pines are the same as those of past times (Raúl Castro).

Youth has been criticized in every era.

13. When one person tells another that he looks very young, he must be certain that he is getting older (Washington Irving).

Nothing is more noticeable than what you think you are losing.

14. What best suits youth is modesty, modesty, modesty, love of temperance, and justice. Such are the virtues that should form his character (Socrates).

An appreciation of Socrates about how youth should be formed.

15. For the sake of the young we must be ready to endure every hardship and fatigue (St. John Bosco).

Young people are considered a valuable part of society.

16. Young people should not only be loved, but they should feel that they are loved (St. John Bosco).

This youth phrase of St. John Bosco invites us to protect this demographic space.

17. But youth must create. A youth that does not create is really an anomaly (Ernesto "Che" Guevara).

Creativity is a characteristic of the youthful spirit and it is very sad not to see it present in our lives.

18. You young people are responsible for your future (St. John Bosco).

Young people always bear this responsibility.

19. The fundamental aspect in which the youth must point the way is precisely in the aspect of being vanguard in each of the works that it is responsible for (Ernesto "Che" Guevara).

Young people must be given the opportunity to demonstrate that they are really capable in what they do.

20. Young people and servants are the most difficult to handle. If you treat them with familiarity, they become disrespectful; if you put them at a distance, they become resentful (Confucius).

In this phrase of Confucius is intended to highlight the changing temperament, typical of those who go through youth.

21. Young people need role models, not critics (John Wooden)

People who inspire them to do better.

22. Unlike old age, which is always in excess, the characteristic of youth is that it is always in fashion (Fernando Savater).

The energy it radiates is contagious.

23. I would rather see a young man blush than turn pale (Cato).

About hope and the desire to see young people in situations typical of their age and not in the bitterness of crises.

Youth, do you know that yours is not the first generation that longs for a life full of beauty and freedom? (Albert Einstein)

Throughout history, youth has been characterized by acting in the same way in different situations.

25. To young people I say be transgressors, give your opinion, youth has to be a turning point of the new time (Néstor Kirchner).

This phrase of Kirchner invites young people to take an active stance on the changes in the world.

26. How old is the Pope?.... I am a young man of 83 years old (John Paul II)

With this phrase John Paul II referred to age as an attitude towards life. age as an attitude toward life.

27. Many of today's young people have credit cards before they leave high school, and long before they have any idea how to generate money and invest it, they must learn, unfortunately, how compound interest on credit cards works against them (Robert Kiyosaki).

Robert Kiyosaki criticizes the way young people manage their finances today.

28. Being young is a misfortune that heals with time (Arcadi Espada)

A pessimistic reflection on youth.

29. One realizes that youth is over when one is nowhere to be found. Young people are in places, and people who are no longer young are beginning to be absent (Alejandro Dolina).

Changes that warn us that adulthood has arrived.

30. A whole generation can be led astray, turned blind, driven to madness and directed towards a false goal. Napoleon proved it (Alexander Herzen)John Wooden.

Young people are more vulnerable to such circumstances.

31. Youth is the vitamin supplement of the anemic social routine (Fernando Savater).

It is what drives many aspects of our society.

32. You are only young once, but you can be immature indefinitely (Ogden Nash).

Immaturity is not an absolute characteristic of youth.

33. Youth is about how you live, not when you were born (Karl Lagerfeld).

This is a matter of attitude.

34. You are still young, and your bitter moments have time to become sweet memories (Alexandre Dumas).

A stage in which there are still many opportunities to use.

35. It is better to be a young beetle than an old bird of paradise (Mark Twain).

An aphorism based on comparison.

36. The greatest misfortune of today's youth is no longer to belong to it (Salvador Dalí).

On the ephemerality of youth.

37. Youth is a disease that is cured with the years (George Bernard Shaw).

It is time that kills it.

38. Youth is a wonderful thing, it is a pity that it is wasted on children (Peter Ustinov)

For Ustinov, youth and fatherhood do not go together.

39. I know that you know that there is no quarrel of generations: there are old young people and old young people, and I am one of them (Salvador Allende).

Allende was always on the side of the young people because he valued the contribution they could make to society..

40. One year I did theater, "Ninette and a man from Murcia", in double session afternoon and evening for 11 months, and I shot five films. I hardly slept. I was 29 years old, and at that age you can do anything if you have illusion. Fuel makes you do everything (Alfredo Landa).

About the impetus and energy that youth can give you.

41. What would youth be without the sea? (Lord Byron)

A poetic allusion to the essence of youth.

42. We should not discourage young people from dreaming big dreams.

A youthful phrase that calls to maintain hope in young people.

43. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec.).

And at every stage we must take advantage of what it offers us.

44. In youth we learn; when we grow up we understand (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

About what each stage of life brings us.

45. The duty of youth is to defy corruption (Kurt Cobain).

This reaffirms its spirit of promoting change.

46. To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth (Pearl S. Buck)

...for there will be no sorrow.

47. Young people are convinced that they possess the truth. Unfortunately, when they succeed in imposing it, they are neither young nor true. (Jaume Perich)

That is why the ideals of young people are so highly valued.

58. In the eyes of the young, the flame burns; in the eyes of the old, the light shines (Victor Hugo).

On the intensity with which they live the departure.

49. Youth, do you know that yours is not the first generation that longs for a life full of beauty and freedom? (Albert Einstein)

In every age there has been a youth with noble ideals.

50. Youth has a lively genius and a weak judgment (Homer).

On the impetuosity and the little wisdom, according to Homer, proper to youth.