Best Adolescence Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I think if I would have been sufficiently sure of myself I would have transitioned in my adolescence. In school I trusted my classmates.”

“I grew up in Boston, and in my adolescence your parents are trying to send you to like 'better' schools and a few of those were predominantly white institutions.”

“To wear stays forces you into the elegant, balletic posture of a Georgian minuet-dancer. As with the tight-lacing, there is still great debate about whether stay-wearing, which began in adolescence, actually changed the shape of the skeleton, or was just a cosmetic, temporary, alteration.”

“Of all the restaurants I visited in my childhood and adolescence, it was Michel Bras that I remembered most vividly and it was the chef himself to whom, early on in my cooking, I would make the most references. I don't mean that I tried to cook like him. Rather, that I tried to think like him.”

“Being stuck in adolescence - that's a hell. 'Peter Pan' is a dystopia, and we forget that. Neverland is a bad place to be.”

“Obviously I went through my adolescence on national TV, but it's great looking back.”

“At a young age, I was very aware I was different and not perceived in a good way. For a lot of my adolescence, I struggled with that, trying to identify where I belong and who my real friends are.”

“I blacked out my childhood after a string of traumatic events in my late adolescence.”

“I've had a prolonged adolescence, like a lot of my generation.”

“In part because of my own journey from a council estate in East London to a seat in the House of Commons, and in part because my adolescence took place during an economic boom and the advent of new technology, I had assumed that over time we would all become better off and, as the white wristbands told us, we would 'Make Poverty History.'”

“Going through adolescence looking like a hormone experiment wasn't easy.”

“Since my adolescence, divisive politics has bothered me.”

“I grew up in south London and spent most of my adolescence in the snooker halls of the area, turning professional at 17.”

“I think most of my childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, I was struggling to feel validated - which led to a lot of my career choices as well.”

“When you share something about your adolescence, it's a way to roll over and show your soft underbelly when it comes to talking about your past and the person that you once were.”

“I certainly firsthand know and love people who didn't fall in love with a woman or didn't even realize they were attracted to women until much later in life, and I'm sure that's true for many men who find themselves attracted to men as well. It doesn't always happen in adolescence. And that experience is completely valid and OK.”

“I spent most of my adolescence feeling awkward but never once mentioned it.”

“From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.”

“If 'Queen Of Denmark' was about my childhood, then 'Pale Green Ghosts' is definitely about my adolescence, and that period was completely dominated by electronic music.”

“I grew up in a country that was in a civil conflict for most of my childhood and adolescence. I saw violence and lived as a teenager through the time of a brutal dictator called Idi Amin. I fled and became a refugee.”

“It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.”

“The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.”

“When you are 8 or 9, you should have a childhood. You should have adolescence. You should go through everything in a normal way.”

“I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.”

“I think it's important to experience kindness so that you can experience it more in the future. I believe that patterns of emotional behavior are set down before adolescence. And I think that if you have not observed kindness, you will not recognize it. You have to experience kindness in order to be kind.”

“Being a father can 'unreason' your worldview, or at least make it very flexible, and that can create all sorts of fun and insights. It's sad that children's open-eyed wonder and sense of play begin to fade as they approach adolescence. One grand function of fathering is to keep the fading to a minimum.”

“Based on my own experience, when you're going through adolescence you don't know how the world works. You can't set a story in the world you live in because you don't know what a utility bill is, or how to budget your paycheck.”

“You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.”

“A large part of my adolescence was spent doing my very best to draw attention to myself.”

“A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.”

“When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.”

“Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.”

“I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.”

“You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.”

“The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.”

“When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.”

“Childhood was definitely my most formative time in terms of my creative self. My adolescence was very much the dark years. I don't think any productive thought came about during my adolescence.”

“Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.”

“I think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.”

“I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.”

“What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.”

“Kids are smart nowadays, they are much more aware of their surroundings than we were 20 years ago, but at the same time it is important that they are guided as a friend when they go through adolescence.”

“What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you're 25.”

“In my adolescence, everyone would like to play in Italy: Roma, Milan, Lazio, Juventus, Sampdoria, Napoli.”

“We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.”

“By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the bane of my adolescence.”

“I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.”

“All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.”

“My whole adolescence has been on 'Game of Thrones;' I don't know what I'm going to do without it.”

“Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It had to do with being brought up in a family where no one spoke English, no one could read or write English. It had to do with death and disease and lots of other things. I was a little prone to depression.”

“Apart from a period of crisis during my adolescence, when my voice was changing and I could not tame it - it was like a kicking foal that does not listen to reason - I have always been told I have a pleasant and recognizable voice.”

“Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.”

“I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.”

“It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.”

“I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.”

“Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.”

“I look back at my adolescence, and I'm shocked at the things I did that were my idea of adult behavior.”

“'The Catcher in the Rye.' When I was a teenager, that was my book; yes, somebody gets it, somebody gets adolescence.”

“I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.”

“Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.”

“The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.”

“'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.”

“I'm sort of stuck in adolescence in many ways, like most artists, and march to my own beat.”

“When the vast baby-boom generation exploded into adolescence in the 1960s, marketers exulted. Advertising consultants, always eager to coin a phrase, began happily explaining to corporations the difference between 'teenyboppers' and 'counterculture consumers.'”

“I started on 'Neighbours' when I was 14. It's crazy to think now that I had such a bizarre adolescence.”

“I do think we're in a period of time culturally where there is just this extraordinary connection that we have to our pets, and in many ways, they are displacing kids. They're so much simpler than dealing with a kid because of this unconditional love that does not get complicated by adolescence or any other manipulation.”

“Germany's hierarchical reverence for seniority may have something to do with the fact that everything here happens relatively late. Germans start school at six, graduate in their late 20s, and get their first proper jobs in their 30s. Adolescence can go on a long time. It is rare for anyone to achieve responsibility before their 50s.”

“Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.”

“I've gone through my adolescence on TV so it's pretty cringey when I look back on some pictures and scenes, but that's part and parcel of being a child actor and growing up.”

“I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.”

“I always loved acting, but when you get older and you're going through adolescence, the roles are limited.”

“After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.”

“My adolescence was a kind of motorway pile-up. I wish I had known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.”

“Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.”

“Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.”

“I grew up in a largely black community during the '70s and '80s that scoffed at 'white' music. That music - folk, rock, some disco - was considered soulless, aberrant, just one more example of the Caucasian's desire to scream and yell and demand whatever their privilege and perpetual adolescence dictated they should demand.”

“I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.”

“Looking back at that now I shudder at my naivety: while 'Men Behaving Badly' remains a brilliant sitcom, how did I ever aspire to Gary and Tony's eternal adolescence?”

“I spent a lot of my adolescence in Miami, where it was super humid, and my hair would get super frizzy, and my waves weren't really consistent or pretty.”

“I designed 'Buffy' to be an icon, to be an emotional experience, to be loved in a way that other shows can't be loved. Because it's about adolescence, which is the most important thing people go through in their development, becoming an adult.”

“The problem with being the baby of the family, is that I have zero say in music? There was no point in my adolescence where I was like, 'You guys, I want to listen to this!' And Este and Danielle would be like, 'Yeah, dude! Let's listen to this! This is a good idea! Let's let Alana choose!' Like, no, that never happened.”

“I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.”

“I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off.”

“I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.”

“'Star Wars' boils down to the transition from adolescence into adulthood.”

“Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.”

“Many, many individuals will report starting to form their lifelong interests around adolescence. Why that is, researchers don't fully know. But if you can take a trip down memory lane and see what interested you, that's at least a clue as to where your interest may begin to develop.”

“I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.”

“Adolescence is the most Technicolor time in our lives. It's the time when adulthood is new and we care most about it. It contains the highs and lows that excite me as a writer.”

“Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.”

“My entire adolescence was geared toward one thing: gymnastics.”

“One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.”

“Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for.”

“In the early '90s, I was finishing up my adolescence. I visited my local comic-book store on a weekly basis, and one week I found a book on the stands called 'Xombi,' published by Milestone Media.”

“When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.”

“Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.”

“The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.”

“Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.”

“For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.”

“I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.”