Teen Quotes
Being a teenager is filled with ups, downs, and everything in between. Adolescence is that phase in your child’s life where your parenting needs to shift gears as your teenager is now exposed to a world full of opportunities and pitfalls.
Everyone goes through the adventure of being a teenager. Read through our collection of teen quotes and sayings to find a moment of solace in everything else going on around you as a teenager.
60 Inspirational Life Quotes For Teenagers
“Being a teen can be tough. Just try to surround yourself with really good friends that really have your back, and also be a really good friend to those who really care about you. If you’re not sure about certain things, talk to your friends that you trust and your family.” – Victoria Justice
“When everything seems to be going against you, remember…the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
“You have to be authentic, you have to be true, and you have to believe in your heart.”-Howard Schultz.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”-Robert H. Schuller
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”-Abraham Lincoln
“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”– Aristotle
Nothing is particularly hard if you break it down into small jobs.” – Henry Ford
“Try walking forward while looking over your shoulder and see how far you get. The same goes for life. Look forward!”– Martin Henderson
“Imagination is something that sits up with dad and mom the first time their teenager stays out late.”
“With confidence, you have won before you have started.” – Marcus Garvey
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.” – Judy Garland
“Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can’t be in life.” – Meg Medina
“Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress, and the way to live.” – Gianni Versace
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe
“Don’t compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.” – Toby Keith
“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.” – Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It’s laid out for you. It’s just up to you to walk it.” – Justin Timberlake
“I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.” – Rob Lowe
“Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.” – Carol Burnett
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”– Albert Einstein
“Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.”– Imam Ali
“Never sacrifice three things: Your family, your heart or your dignity.”
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ’I will try again tomorrow’.”– Mary Anne Radmacher
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Being confident means believing in yourself. Ego means needing to prove that you’re better than other people.”-Barbara De Angelis
“The Surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.”-Richard B. Sheridan
“Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success.” – JK Rowling
“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.”- Steve Jobs
“If I cannot do great things. I can do small things in a great way.”– Martin Luther King Jr.
“Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.”– Stephen Hawking
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”– Maya Angelou
“An old dog can learn new tricks. If your enthusiasm has lost its vitality, do everything possible to revive it.”– Don McArt
“So, if you feel a smile begin, don’t leave it undetected, let’s start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!” – Russel H. Conwell
“No other version, no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.” – Edmond Mbiaka
“Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.” – John Wooden
“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” – Virginia Satir
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” – Bertrand Russell
“I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp
“First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.” – George Bernard Shaw
“The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It’s when you make your best friends – I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.” – Sophia Bush
“I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.” – Uma Thurman
“When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.” – Elon Musk
“Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.” – Samuel Ullman
“Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear.”– Taylor Swift
“Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made. If you push through the hard days, then you can get through anything.”– Gabby Douglas
“You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequence of your choice.”
“The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.” – Quentin Crisp
“Adolescence isn’t just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.” – Jena Malone
“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.” – Bryan White
“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.”– H.Jackson Brown Jr.
“The difference between winning and losing is most often not quitting.”– Walt Disney
“The women who follow the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.”– Albert Einstein
“Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.” – Virginia Satir
“There was so much pressure to fit in, I tried to force myself to be like everyone else. The last thing any teen wants is to be ‘uncool.’” – GRiZ
“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.” – Johnny Depp
“The little-unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life.” – William Wordsworth