The 50 best youth phrases
The phrases of youth spoken or written by influential thinkers of 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.
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The most interesting youth phrases
It is considered one of the most energetic and creative stages of the human being. An age in which feverish mood stands out as well as immaturity.
A difficult stage to understand but many famous people have wanted to emphasize its importance with youthful phrases. Next 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 on the situations that he observed in young people in his time.
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2. There are no bad young people, but badly oriented young people (Saint John Bosco)
This sentence avoids placing a moral responsibility on young people.
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 on lthe attitude of youth to the world.
4. The youth has its fight, which is to overthrow the surrendering oligarchies, the disoriented drivers and the strange interests that exploit us (Arturo Jauretche)
The revolutionary expression in the spirit of the young 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. Knowledge and awareness can be acquired throughout life, but never at any other time in your life. existence a person will once again have the purity and selflessness with which, being young, he faces life (Fidel Castro)
Youth endows us with a strength that we must take advantage of, since after time it will not be the same.
7. The path of youth takes a lifetime (Pablo R. Picasso)
Pablo Picasso's youth phrase, with a touch of paradox.
8. Youth is fleeting (Horacio)
It is one of the stages that, like intense, is usually short.
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9. Among you, young people, is where I feel good (Saint 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 come back. 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 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 life stage, in which we can easily undertake the largest projects.
12. Some are very critical when referring to the youth of today and forget that they too were once young. It would be illusory to pretend that new pines are the same as those of past eras (Raúl Castro)
In all ages, youth have been criticized.
13. When one person tells another that she looks very young, she must be certain that she is getting old (Washington Irving)
Nothing becomes more noticeable than what is believed to be missing.
14. What best suits the youth is modesty, modesty, the love of temperance, and justice. Such are the virtues that must form his character (Socrates)
An appreciation of Socrates about how youth should be formed.
15. For the young we must be willing to bear any setback and fatigue (Saint John Bosco)
Young people are seen as a valuable part of society.
16. Young people must not only be loved, but must feel that they are loved (Saint John Bosco)
This youthful phrase of Saint John Bosco invites us to protect this demographic space.
17. But youth has to create. A youth that does not believe is really 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 the youth must point the way is precisely in the aspect of being avant-garde in each of the jobs that they are responsible for (Ernesto "Che" Guevara)
Young people must be given the opportunity to show that they are really capable at what they do.
20. The young and the servants are the most difficult to handle. If you treat them with familiarity, they become disrespectful; if you put them at a distance, they suffer (Confucius)
In this phrase by Confucius, an attempt is made to show the changing temperament, typical of those who pass through youth.
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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 extra, the characteristic of youth is that it is always in fashion (Fernando Savater)
The energy that radiates it is contagious.
23. I'd rather see a young man blush than pale (Cato)
On 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 that yearns 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.
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25. To young people I say be transgressors, think, youth has to be a turning point of the new time (Néstor Kirchner)
This phrase by Kirchner invites young people to take an active stance on 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 referred 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 an idea of how to generate money and invest it, they must learn pitifully, how compound interest works on credit cards, against them (Robert Kiyosaki)
Robert Kiyosaki makes a criticism about the way in which young people manage their economy today.
28. Being young is a misfortune that heals over 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 have stopped being young people are already beginning to be absent (Alejandro Dolina)
Changes that warn us that adulthood has arrived.
30. It can lead an entire generation astray, blind it, drive it insane, and steer it 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 (Alexander Dumas)
A stage in which there are still many opportunities to use.
35. 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 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 commune.
39. I know that you know that there is no quarrel of generations: there are young old men and young old men, and in these I find myself (Salvador Allende)
Allende was always next to 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 evening for 11 months, and I shot five films. He hardly slept. He was 29 years old, and at that age you do everything if you are excited. Fuel makes you do everything (Alfredo Landa)
About the momentum and energy with which 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 youth 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 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 their spirit of promoting change is reaffirmed.
46. Finding joy in work is discovering the fountain of youth (Pearl S. Buck)
... since no regrets will be felt.
47. Young people are convinced that they have the truth. Unfortunately, when they manage to impose it, they are neither young nor is it true. (Jaume Perich)
That is why the ideals of the young are so highly valued.
58. In the eyes of the young man, the flame burns; in those of the old man, the light shines (Victor Hugo)
About the intensity with which they live the first leg.
49. Youth, do you know that yours is not the first generation that yearns for a life full of beauty and freedom? (Albert Einstein)
In all ages there has been a youth with noble ideals.
50. Youth has a lively temper and weak judgment (Homer)
On the impetus and the little wisdom, according to Homer, typical of youth.