Great thinkers throughout history have imparted insights that can provide inspiration for teens. From the value of hard work and optimism to the importance of time, itself, these quotes can help motivate any teenager.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Mark Twain
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Dalai Lama
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
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail.
John Donne
Do whatever you do intensely.
Robert Henri
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Shakti Gawain