The phrases of youth spoken or written by influential thinkers in history They tend to be 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.
A difficult stage to understand but many famous people have wanted to emphasize its importance with youthful phrases. 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 from Socrates is a reflection on the situations that he observed in young people in his time.
2. There are no bad young people, but misguided young people (Saint John Bosco)
This phrase avoids burdening young people with moral responsibility.
3. Youth needs to believe, a priori, superior. Of course he is wrong, but this is precisely the great right of youth (José Ortega Y Gasset)
A reflection onthe attitude of youth towards the world
4. Youth has their fight, which is to overthrow the handover oligarchies, the drivers who disorient and the foreign interests that exploit us (Arturo Jauretche)
The revolutionary expression in the spirit of young people is very well known and natural.
5. The important thing for a young man is to establish his character, a reputation and credit (John D. Rockefeller)
From Rockefeller’s point of view, a young person needs these elements to develop.
6. Knowledge and awareness can be acquired throughout life, but never at any other time in their existence will a person again have the purity and selflessness with which, as a young person, they face life (Fidel Castro)
Youth gives us a strength that we must take advantage of, since time will not be the same.
7. The path of youth takes a lifetime (Pablo R. Picasso)
Quote from Pablo Picasso’s youth, with a touch of paradox.
It is one of the stages that, just as intense, is usually short.
9. Among you, young people, is where I feel good (Saint John Bosco)
It is always pleasant to feel the joy that usually exists among young people.
10. I remember my youth and that feeling that will never return. The feeling that I could last longer than everything, longer than the sea, longer than the land, longer than all men (Joseph Conrad)
A phrase that contains nostalgia for past times.
11. The fundamental clay of our work is youth, in it we place our hope and prepare it to take the flag from our hands (Ernesto “Che” Guevara)
It has been considered the best stage of life, in which we can easily undertake the largest projects.
12. Some are very critical when referring to today’s youth and forget that they were also young once. It would be illusory to pretend that new pine trees are the same as those of past times (Raúl Castro)
In all eras, youth has been criticized.
13. When a person tells another that they look very young, they must be certain that they are getting older (Washington Irving)
Nothing becomes more noticeable than what you believe you are losing.
14. What suits youth best is modesty, modesty, love of temperance, and justice. Such are the virtues that must form your character (Socrates)
An appreciation of Socrates about how youth should be formed.
15. For the sake of young people we must be willing to endure any setback and fatigue (Saint John Bosco)
Young people are considered a valuable part of society.
16. Young people should not only be loved, but they should notice that they are loved (Saint John Bosco)
This youthful phrase from Saint John Bosco invites us to protect this demographic space.
17. But youth has to create. A youth that does not believe is truly an anomaly (Ernesto “Che” Guevara)
Creativity is a characteristic of the youthful spirit, it is very sad not to see it present in our lives.
18. You young people are responsible for your future (Saint John Bosco)
Young people always carry that responsibility.
19. The fundamental aspect in which youth must point the way is precisely in the aspect of being a vanguard in each of the jobs that concern them (Ernesto “Che” Guevara)
Young people must be given the opportunity to demonstrate that they are truly capable of 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 resent it (Confucius)
In this phrase from Confucius, an attempt is made to show the changing temperament, typical of someone who goes through youth.
21. Young people need role models, not critics (John Wooden)
People who inspire them to do things better.
22. Unlike old age, which is always unnecessary, the characteristic of youth is that it is always in fashion (Fernando Savater)
The energy that radiates it is contagious.
23. I would rather see a young man blush than pale (Cato)
About the hope and desire to see young people in situations typical of their age and not within the bitterness of crises.
24. Youth, do you know that yours is not the first generation to long for a life full of beauty and freedom? (Albert Einstein)
Throughout history, youth have been characterized by acting in the same way in different situations.
25. I tell young people to be transgressors, give their opinion, youth has to be a turning point of the new time (Néstor Kirchner)
This phrase from 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 (John Paul II)
With this phrase John Paul II was referring to age as an attitude towards life
27. Many of today’s young people have credit cards, before leaving 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. You realize that your youth is over when you are nowhere. Young people are in places, and people who are no longer young people are beginning to be absent (Alejandro Dolina)
Changes that warn us that adulthood has arrived
30. An entire generation can be led astray, blinded, driven into madness, and directed toward a false goal. Napoleon proved it (Alexander Herzen)John Wooden.
Young people are more vulnerable to these types of circumstances.
31. Youth is the vitamin supplement of the anemic social routine (Fernando Savater)
It is what moves 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 question of attitude.
34. You are still young, and your bitter moments have time to become sweet memories (Alejandro 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 belonging to it (Salvador Dalí)
About the ephemeral of youth.
37. Youth is a disease that is cured with age (George Bernard Shaw)
Time is what ends it.
38. Youth is a wonderful thing, it’s a shame it is wasted on children (Peter Ustinov)
For Ustinov, youth and fatherhood do not coincide.
39. I know that you know that there is no quarrel between generations: there are young old people and old young people, and I find myself in these (Salvador Allende)
Allende was always at the side of young people because he valued the contribution they could make to society
40. One year I did theater, “Ninette y un Señor de Murcia”, in a double session of afternoon and night for 11 months, and I shot five films. I hardly slept. She was 29 years old, and at that age you can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Fuel makes you do everything (Alfredo Landa)
About the impetus and energy that youth can offer 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 (Lenny Wilken)
A phrase of youth 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 each 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 challenge corruption (Kurt Cobain)
And thus its spirit of promoting change is reaffirmed.
46. Finding joy at work is discovering the fountain of youth (Pearl S. Buck)
…since you will not feel regrets.
47. Young people are convinced that they possess the truth. Unfortunately, when they manage to impose it, they are no longer young nor is it true. (Jaume Perich)
That is why the ideals of young people are so valued.
58. In the eyes of the young man, the flame burns; in the old man’s, the light shines (Victor Hugo)
About the intensity with which they live the journey.
49. Youth, do you know that yours is not the first generation to long for a life full of beauty and freedom? (Albert Einstein)
In all times there have been youth with noble ideals.
50. Youth has a quick temper and weak judgment (Homer)
About the impetus and little wisdom, according to Homer, typical of youth.
51. Youth, divine treasure (Paco Ibáñez)
One of the most remembered verses of this Spanish singer-songwriter.
52. Youth always pushes, youth always wins, and the salvation of Spain depends on its youth (Miguel Hernández)
This great Spanish poet advocated the importance of youth in winning the civil war in his country.
53. Youth is the most active and vital force in society. Young people are the most eager to learn, and the least conservative in their thinking (Mao Zedong)
Mao’s teachings always took youth into account and placed special emphasis on educating the youngest in revolutionary convictions.
54. Youth passes, immaturity is overcome, ignorance is cured with education and drunkenness with sobriety, but stupidity lasts forever (Aristophanes)
A phrase that continues to maintain its validity intact today.
55. Youth is happy because it is blind: this blindness is its greatness: this inexperience is its sublime confidence. What a beautiful generation of active young people! (Jose Marti)
Happiness in youth has been a constant in literature throughout history.
56. Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who retains the ability to see beauty never ages (Franz Kafka)
A phrase that can accompany us and that we can keep in mind throughout our lives.
57. While the color of rose and lily is shown in your gesture, and your ardent, honest look ignites the heart and restrains it (Garcilaso de la Vega)
One of the most famous verses of this Spanish poet, in which he establishes a very beautiful image of youth.
58. Youth is folly, maturity is a struggle and old age is a lament (Benjamin Disraeli)
A truly surprising and interesting way to sum it up.
59. Youth wants to be stimulated rather than instructed (Goethe)
A good way to teach is to seduce rather than force someone to learn something.
60. Youth is the age of growth and development, of activity, and liveliness, of imagination and impetus (José Martí)
The Cuban politician and revolutionary José Martí placed special emphasis on the importance of youth to succeed in any political action.
61. Youth is not eternal, so don’t waste time chasing it (Eugenia Debayle)
The elders know this feeling well. Youth usually leaves quickly.
62. Youth is immoderate in its desires (Émile Zola)
If there is one thing that can define youth, it is that it is a time of excess and sometimes insatiable.
63. This enthusiastic youth is beautiful. She is right, but even if she were wrong, we would love her (José Martí)
This Cuban poet and politician was in his time one of the most important intellectuals in Latin America and his approaches to youth were truly influential.
64. Stay true to the dreams of your youth (Friedrich Schiller)
Youth is the period in which we begin to build our political and ideological approaches.
65. If there is something that ennobles youth, it is consideration and respect for the elderly (José Martí)
No revolution can succeed without respect for the elderly, something that Martí knew perfectly well.
66. Forty is the mature age of youth; fifties the youth of middle age (Victor Hugo)
One of the many wise reflections that we can find in the work of this playwright.
67. If youth is a defect, it is a defect from which we cure too soon (James Russell Lowell)
Looking back, most of us long for youth.
68. Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of the spirit (Mateo Alemán)
Youth is not measured by how old you are, but by how you live your life.
69. I would do anything to regain my youth… except exercise, get up early, or be a useful member of the community (Oscar Wilde)
One of the many ironic phrases that this genius of English letters left us.
70. When I was younger I could remember everything, whether it had happened or not (Mark Twain)
The author of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” worked on the theme of youth in many of his works.
