“Those who improve with age embrace
the power of personal growth and
personal achievement and begin to
replace youth with wisdom, innocence
with understanding, and lack of
purpose with self-actualization.”
- Bo Benett
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your
mind, your talents, the creativity you
bring to your life and the lives of people
you love. “
- Sophia Loren
“Youth is a period of timelessness when
the horizons of age seem too distant to
be noticed.”
-Ezra Taft Benson
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to
instruct him to hold in higher esteem
those who think alike than those who
think differently.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Good habits formed at youth make all
the difference.”
- Aristotle
“Youth smiles without any reason. It is
one of its chiefest charms.”
- Thomas Gray
“Take a course in good water and air;
and in the eternal youth of Nature you
may renew your own. Go quietly, alone;
no harm will befall you.”
- John Muir
“Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a
work of art.”
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“Youth is happy because it has the
ability to see beauty. Anyone who
keeps the ability to see beauty never
grows old.
- Franz Kafka
“A good youth ought to have a fear of
God, to be subject to his parents, to
give honor to his elders, to preserve his
purity; he ought not to despise
humility, but should love forbearance
and modesty.”
- St. Ambrose of Milan
“We have a powerful potential in out
youth, and we must have the courage
to change old ideas and practices so
that we may direct their power toward
good ends.”
- Mary McLeod Bethune
“The duty of youth is to challenge
corruption.”
- Kurt Cobain
“Age considers; youth ventures.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
“Youth is the best time to be rich, and
the best time to be poor.”
- Euripides
“Youth is to all the glad season of life;
but often only by what it hopes, not by
what it attains, or what it escapes.”
- Thomas Carlyle
“Invention is the talent of youth, as
judgment is of age.”
-Jonathan Swift
“Dear young people, do not bury your
talents, the gifts that God has given
you. Do not be afraid to dream of great
things.”
- Pope Francis
“We don't need youth museums but
we do need holy young people.”
- Pope Francis
“Let Christ turn your natural optimism
into Christian hope, your energy into
moral virtue, your good will into
genuine self-sacrificing love! This is the
path you are called to take.”
- Pope Francis
“Let us encourage the generosity which
is typical of the young and help them to
work actively in building a better
world.”
- Pope Francis
“Youth do not solely need material
things. Above all, they need to have
those non-material values which are
the spiritual heart of a people ...
spirituality, generosity, solidarity,
perseverance, fraternity, and joy.
- Pope Francis
“In your school you take part in various
activities that habituate you not to shut
yourselves in on yourselves or in your
small world, but to be open to others,
especially to the poorest and neediest,
to work to improve the world in which
we live”
- Pope Francis
“Dear children, dear youths, love Jesus
Christ ever more!”
- Pope Francis
“The youth say stupid things and they
say good things, as we do, as everyone
does. But hear them, speak with them,
because we must learn from them and
they must learn from me, from us.”
- Pope Francis
“Youth is a time of continuous
discovery of life, of the world, of others
and of ourselves.”
- Pope Benedict XVI
“Youth is a time of openness to the
future and of great longing for
happiness, friendship, sharing and
truth, a time when we are moved by
high ideals and make great plans.”
- Pope Benedict XVI
“Dear young people, do not be afraid to
risk your lives by making space for Jesus
Christ and his Gospel. This is the way to
find inner peace and true happiness.”
- Pope Benedict XVI
“Dear young people, do not be afraid if
Christ is calling you to the religious,
monastic or missionary life or to the
priesthood.”
- Pope Benedict XVI
“Dear young people, have frequent
recourse to the sacrament of Penance
and Reconciliation! It is the sacrament
of joy rediscovered.”
- Pope Benedict XVI
“We can find an answer in some of the
experiences of young people like
yourselves who have found in Christ the
light that can give strength and hope
even in difficult situations.”
- Pope Benedict XVI
“Go and tell other young people about
your joy at finding the precious treasure
which is Jesus himself. We cannot keep
the joy of faith to ourselves.”
- Pope Benedict XVI
“It is up to you, young followers of
Christ, to show the world that faith
brings happiness and a joy which is
true, full and enduring.”
- Pope Benedict XVI
“The future is in your hearts and in your
hands. God is entrusting to you the
task, at once difficult and uplifting, of
working with Him in the building of the
civilization of love.”
- St. John Paul II
“Dear young people, let yourselves be
taken over by the light of Christ, and
spread that light wherever you are.”
- St. John Paul II
“When a young man or woman
recognizes that authentic love is a
precious treasure, they are also
enabled to live their sexuality in
accordance with the divine plan,
rejecting the false models which are,
unfortunately, all too frequently
publicized and very widespread.”
- St. John Paul II
“It is first of all necessary for you young
people to give a forceful witness of love
for life, God’s gift.”
- St. John Paul II
“When you wonder what it means to
be a mature person, look to Christ who
is the fullness of humanity.”
St. John Paul II
“Be generous in your active life, young
people, and be deeply immersed in the
contemplation of God’s mystery. Make
the Eucharist the heart of your day.”
- St. John Paul II
“Young people, the Church asks you to
go, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to
those who are near and those who are
far away. Share with them the freedom
you have found in Christ.”
- St. John Paul II
“The Church needs your energies, your
enthusiasm, your youthful ideals, in
order to make the Gospel of Life
penetrate the fabric of society,
transforming people’s hearts and the
structures of society in order to create
a civilization of true justice and love.”
- St. John Paul II
“Young people, do not be afraid to be
holy!” Fly high, be among those whose
goals are worthy of sons and daughters
of God.”
- St. John Paul II
“Dear young people, you know that
Christianity is not an opinion nor does it
consist of empty words. Christianity is
Christ!”
- St. John Paul II
““My dear young people, only Jesus
knows what is in your hearts and your
deepest desires. Only He, who has
loved you to the end”
- St. John Paul II