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

“In my teen years, I was hanging out with adults - Steven Meisel, Francois Nars, Oribe, Paul Cavaco. We had so much fun! We'd go out in New York.”

“I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.”

“My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong Kong. Her name was Lily Mark, but she sometimes wrote under her confirmation name, Margaret Mark. That was how she met my father.”

“I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.”

“I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty teen years while making records.”

“I definitely was one angsty teen and I definitely went through the emo phase.”

“I've watched presidential debates since I was a teen, and I love it.”

“Let us develop an agenda for children that says we can do something about teen pregnancy. Let us make sure that parents are old enough, wise enough, and financially able to take care of their children.”

“I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.”

“If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.”

“The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away that I wanted to keep my child, being a pregnant teen was an extremely scary experience for me. Luckily, my family and friends were very supportive and were there for me every step of the way.”

“We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.”

“My top goal as your Secretary of State is to save lives by reducing fatal traffic crashes. When I established the Teen Driver Safety Task Force, the goal was to improve Illinois' graduated driver licensing law and, even more importantly, to save lives.”

“I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.”

“I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.”

“Reading was my escape growing up in Ohio. Both of my parents lost their jobs when I was a teen, and it was hard. But I always had my books. Reading gave me a way of living different lives.”

“All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.”

“We must tell girls their voices are important.”

“I've never done a teen movie before, but I certainly could tell you some of the ones I came very close on. I was very close on Clueless and She's All That.”

“Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.”

“I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.”

“Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.”

“As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.”

“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”

“Trump gets too much credit for 'Teen Vogue''s evolution.”

“Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.”

“Without exaggeration, hyperbole or conflict of interest, 'On My Block' is the best teen show in the history of teen shows.”

“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'”

“I have cystic acne, and sometimes when I have a breakout, it triggers me back to that time when I was a teen and I feel so self-conscious - like the whole world is looking at my bad skin. I've definitely not gone out of the house because of a breakout, which is horrible.”

“So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!”

“I used to play 'Grand Theft Auto' when I was an early teen, between eleven and thirteen.”

“I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.”

“Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.”

“It's tough enough handling the teen years in private without all the pressures of work and long hours on the set.”

“I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.”

“I became a teen idol. At the time, it embarrassed me.”

“Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.”

“Being a musician since I was a teen, Guitar Center is the staple. You need anything to create, it's there. You need a Guitar Center. You gotta give it homage. It's a tool shed, and without the tool shed, it's hard to create.”

“The best thing I can say about 'Teen Wolf Too' is that it's the only time anyone ever referred to me as Preston Sturges. Leonard Maltin wrote that 'Teen Wolf Too' made 'Teen Wolf' look like Preston Sturges. I've always prided myself on that.”

“Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.”

“Yeah, I spent my teen years in West Virginia, and when I was a kid, in Louisiana. I definitely have that exposure to two different sorts of rural: the South and Appalachia.”

“My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.”

“It never hurts to tell your teen they matter more than their looks.”

“I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.”

“I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.”

“I was a handful growing up.”

“When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.”

“Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.”

“As a teen, I never went on holiday, because all my summers were spent in hospital. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the hospital in question was in Slough.”

“I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.”

“The Teen Challenge Training Center on Pennsylvania farmland houses over 200 men in rehab. Other farms and centers have been birthed out of this ministry all over the world.”

“Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.”

“I don't really think I feel pressured to become a teen sensation because that's not really my goal in life. It's not really about being star, being popular or having lots of girls. It's really about continuing to be able to act and have fun, and do what I like to do.”

“Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.”

“It's hard being homeless at any age, but at 16 years old? I can't even imagine. When you're a homeless teen, how do you build a future or have any sort of life?”

“Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.”

“Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.”

“Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.”

“Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.”

“Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.”

“I've met so many new fans and amazing people while traveling to new cities and locations throughout 2017 in support of my album 'American Teen.'”

“I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.”

“I just want to say I love Kira Yukimura so much. I loved my experience on 'Teen Wolf.'”

“Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.”

“I don't know if this is too weird to say, but this is completely surreal for me. Bizarre. The cover of 'Teen Vogue' has been on my bucket list forever.”

“I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.”

“I'm definitely of the 'Harry Potter'-transfigured-me-into-a-reader-and-writer generation. And that's really all I read throughout my teen years, because I really devoted all my time to writing and reading friends' fan-fiction.”

“I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.”

“'Teen Beach Movie' was a lot of fun because we were in Puerto Rico on an island - you can't even call it work!”

“'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.”

“I built my entire career off of teen comedies. I was in 'Bring It On'.”

“Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.”

“If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.”

“I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.”

“The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.”

“I think I learned 'Smoke On The Water,' then 'Eye of the Tiger,' then 'Smells Like Teen Spirit.'”

“Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.”

“I started working as a movie writer and a movie producer... all the way back to 'Teen Wolf' and 'Commando.' All of those experiences, plus working both at DC and at Marvel - each of those things are bricks in the wall.”

“Teen movies often have an unspoken underlying premise in which high school is seen as less serious than the adult world. But when your head is encased in that microcosm it's the most serious time of your life.”

“Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.”

“If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.”

“When the magazine came to me and asked if I wanted to be photographed, I thought, Why should I be in Teen Vogue? Me featured? Why me, you know?”

“You've got to grow up sometime.”

“It's fun to sniff and slather on beauty products, but the end goal is finding what appeals most to 'Teen Vogue' readers and reporting on it in the most compelling way.”

“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.”

“I've got some great stuff in my sports memorabilia collection. But my favorite thing by far is the robe. I actually have a Ric Flair robe with 'the Nature Boy' on the back. That's awesome. When I look at it, it brings back so many memories of my childhood and my teen years.”

“Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.”

“The eighties were my teen years, so the GoGos are sort of a touchstone.”

“When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body.”

“I always wanted to be independent. I worked at a few odd jobs as a teen and, when I was in my early 20s, I soon realised that I disliked unfair bosses. I knew I was disciplined and motivated, and that I would work best when I was self-employed.”

“Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.”

“One of the things that 'Love, Simon' is doing that hasn't been done before is it's a gay teen rom-com with a mainstream wide release and the backing of a studio that previous gay rom-coms have not had. I'm really excited by that.”

“I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.”

“I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.”

“Youth comes but once in a lifetime.”

“'I Think We're Alone Now' just makes people feel good. It became a teen anthem twice. How cool is that?”

“I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.”

“A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their crimes, and few of their capers met with any success; most seemed to end within moments of starting, usually after a fatherly pilot convinced the nervous teen to hand over his gun.”

“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”

“When 'Teen Vogue' started out, 'Teen Vogue' was an aspirational fashion magazine for fashion lovers. You know, it was the little sister to 'Vogue.' And over the years, we've realized that our mission was really to become more focused on making this an inclusive community that speaks to every kind of young person.”