25 Inspirational Teenager Quotes That Are Meaningful

It cannot be easy to navigate the emotional rollercoaster as a teen. You may feel like you’re carrying the world on your shoulders at times. Today, we’re reminding you that you’re not alone in those experiences and that many others are also experiencing similar circumstances.

Below, we have Cherished Teen Quotes from some of the most influential young minds in Hollywood, rock-n-roll, and world history.

Top 25 Inspirational Teenager Quotes

1. “Teenagers complain there’s nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.” ― Bob Phillips

2. “A teenager is always too tired to hold a dishcloth, but never too tired to hold a phone.” ― Anonymous

3. “Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years.” ― Taylor Swift

4. “I mean, really. Who sends their kid to boarding school? It’s so Hogwarts. Only mine doesn’t have cute boy wizards or magic candy or flying lessons.” ― Stephanie Perkins

5. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ― E. E. Cummings

6. “In the time it takes you to understand a 14-year-old, he turns 15.” ― Robert Brault

7. “She wanted to go back. She wanted to be a little girl again, the one who thought getting high meant being pushed on the swing and pain was falling off her bike.” ― Amy Zhang

8. “I haven’t really forgotten what it’s like to be a teenager and how much it sucked.” ― Ben Weasel

9. “When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.” ― Aidan Chambers

10. “As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” ― Fran Lebowitz

11. “How strange that the young should always think the world is against them – when in fact that is the only time it is for them.” ― Mignon McLaughlin

12. “Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn’t. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.” ― Marilyn vos Savant

13. “No boy is worth your teenage years!.” ― Hayley Williams

14. “Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.” ― Aristotle

15. “It’s difficult to decide whether growing pains are something teenagers have or are.” ― Anonymous

16. “The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we’ve all gone through that period. It’s not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.” ― Gus Van Sant

17. “Anybody who has a problem with ‘Skins’ obviously doesn’t understand teenage life.” ― Nicholas Hoult

18. “Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.” ― Logan Pearsall Smith

19. “One of the cruelties of teenagehood is that you’ll never know what your parents were really like at your age, and they’ll never accurately remember.” ― Una LaMarche

20. “I don’t know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.” ― Anna Kournikova

21. “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

22. “I wonder what it’s like to have that much power over a boy. I don’t think I’d want it; it’s a lot of responsibility to hold a person’s heart in your hands.” ― Jenny Han

23. “I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers – the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.” ― Beverly Mitchell

24. “I try not to change, but I keep changing in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.” ― Becky Albertalli

25. “Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.” ― Aristotle

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