The phrases of youth pronounced or written by influential thinkers of history are usually interesting reflections on one of the most intense stages of life. Artists, politicians and philosophers like 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 youth phrases

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

A difficult stage to understand but many famous people have wanted to emphasize its importance with phrases of youth. Below is a selection of these.

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

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

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2. There are no bad youths, but badly oriented youths (St. John Bosco)

This phrase avoids placing a moral responsibility on young people.

3. Youth needs to believe itself, a priori, superior. Of course, he is wrong, but this is precisely the great right of youth (José Ortega Y Gasset)

A reflection on the attitude of youth before the world .

4. Youth has its struggle, which is to overthrow the surrendering oligarchies, the drivers who disorientate and the foreign interests that exploit us (Arturo Jauretche)

Revolutionary expression in the spirit of young people is well known and natural.

5. The important thing for a young person is to establish 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 one’s life, but never at any other time in one’s existence will a person again have the purity and selflessness with which, when young, one faces life (Fidel Castro)

Youth gives us 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 (Horacio)

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

9. Among you, young people, is where I feel good (St. 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 times past.

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 biggest projects.

12. Some are very critical when referring to today’s youth and forget that they too were once young. 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 age.

13. When a person tells another person that he looks very young, he must be sure that he is getting old.

Nothing becomes more noticeable than what you think you’re missing.

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

Socrates’ assessment of how youth should be formed.

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

Young people are seen as a valuable part of society.

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

This phrase from St. John Bosco’s youth invites us to protect this demographic space.

17. But youth has to 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 carry that responsibility.

19. The fundamental aspect in which youth must point the way is precisely in the aspect of being the vanguard in each of the works that concern them (Ernesto “Che” Guevara)

Young people must be given the opportunity to show that they are truly capable of what they do.

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

In this sentence of Confucius, the changing temperament of those who are young is evident.

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 in excess, the characteristic of youth is that it is always in fashion (Fernando Savater)

The energy that radiates is contagious.

23. I’d rather see a young man blush than pale (Cato)

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

24. 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, young people have been characterized by acting in the same way in different situations.

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

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

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

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

Many of today’s young people have credit cards before they leave high school, and long before they have any idea how to make money and invest it, they must learn the pitiful way that compound interest on credit cards works against them (Robert Kiyosaki)

Robert Kiyosaki is critical of the way young people are managing their economies today.

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

A pessimistic reflection on youth.

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

Changes that tell 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 this (Alexander Herzen)John Wooden.

Young people are more vulnerable to these kinds of circumstances.

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

It is the one that 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 are born (Karl Lagerfeld)

This question of attitude.

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

A stage in which there are still many opportunities to be used.

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 ephemeral of youth.

37. Youth is a disease that heals over the years (George Bernard Shaw)

Time is what kills her.

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

For Ustinov, youth and fatherhood do not take communion.

39. I know that you know that there is no quarrel of generations: there are young old men and old young men, and in these I (Salvador Allende) place myself

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

40. One year I did theatre, “Ninette and a gentleman from Murcia”, in a double session of afternoon and night during 11 months, and I shot five films. I almost didn’t sleep. I was 29 years old, and at that age you can do anything if you’re excited. 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 youthful phrase that calls for maintaining hope in young people.

43. Youth is nature’s gift, 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 older we understand (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)

About what each stage of life brings.

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

And this reaffirms their spirit of promoting change.

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

…since they won’t feel any regrets.

47. Young people are convinced that they possess the truth. Unfortunately, when they succeed in imposing it, they are no longer young, nor is it true. (Jaume Perich)

That’s why the ideals of young people are so valued.

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

About 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 living genius and weak judgment (Homer)

On the impetus and little wisdom, according to Homer, characteristic of youth.