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Youth Quotes – The Best Sayings About Childhood And Young People

Youth Quotes – 51 Sayings About Childhood And Young People

Du suchst die besten Jugend Zitate und Sprüche über die Kindheit? Dann bist du hier genau richtig. Kaum eine Phase des Lebens ist so facettenreich, wie die der Jugend und Kindheit. Sie birgt jenen magischen Mix aus Neugier, Naivität und Mut, der junge Menschen dazu befähigt, ihre Grenzen zu testen, wertvolle Erfahrungen zu machen, aus ihnen zu lernen und erwachsen zu werden.

In diesem Artikel möchte ich dir jetzt kurze, inspirierende Weisheiten und Zitate über die Jugendzeit, das Kindesalter und die junge Generation an die Hand geben. Auf geht's!

My please: Keep in mind that many of the youth quotes have been translated into English from other languages. I cannot guarantee that it is the original quote in each case. Therefore, double check them before you share them. If you like and share any of the quotes in the internet, please link this elaborately created collection. Thank you for your support!

Die 51 besten Zitate über Jugend, Kindheit und junge Menschen

Von der wundersamen Einfachheit der Kindheit bis zur turbulenten Reise der Pubertät, der Schulzeit und allen anderen Herausforderungen der Jugend – die folgenden Zitate zeichnen ein vielseitiges und fesselndes Bild der frühen Jahre unseres Daseins. Sie beleuchten die Höhen und Tiefen, die Freuden und Herausforderungen, sowie die Wunder und Schwierigkeiten, die mit dem Heranwachsen einhergehen.

Nutze die Weisheiten und Sprüche zum Beispiel, um dir bewusst zu machen, how valuable the time as a child or teenager:r is – oder einfach, um an deine Freunde aus Kindheitstagen oder deine Jugendliebe zurückzudenken.

Jugend Zitate 1 – 10

  1. "In youth we learn; in age we understand." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
  2. "Childhoods never last. But everyone deserves one." (Wendy Dale)
  3. "Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself." (Hakuin Zenji)
  4. "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art." (Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
  5. "The major misfortune of the actual youth is no longer belonging to it." (Salvador Dali)
  6. "If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older." (Tom Stoppard)
  7. "The foundation of every state is the education of its youth." (Diogenes of Sinope)
  8. "Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world." (Nelson Mandela)
  9. "Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood." (Pablo Neruda)
  10. „Ich lebe in jener Einsamkeit, die peinvoll ist in der Jugend, aber köstlich in den Jahren der Reife.“ (Albert Einstein)

Jugend Zitate 11 – 20

  1. "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)
  2. "Youth has no age." (Pablo Picasso)
  3. "Children at play are joys come to life." (Christian Friedrich Hebbel)
  4. "Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children." (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
  5. "Youth is unselfish in thought and feelings, so she most deeply feels and understands the truth." (Heinrich Heine)
  6. "Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
  7. "Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work." (C. S. Lewis)
  8. "Education is the organized defence of adults against youth." (Mark Twain)
  9. "It is never too late to have a happy childhood." (Tom Robbins)
  10. "The youth is the hope of our future." (Jose Rizal)

Tip: In childhood, we learn first and foremost, get creative. Der verlinkte Blogartikel wird dir dabei helfen, deine Kreativität auch im Erwachsenenalter gezielt zu fördern. Auch, was Erwachsene von Kindern lernen können, erläutere ich dir in einem weiteren Beitrag.

Jugend Zitate 21 – 30

  1. "Most people use their youth to ruin their age." (Jean de La Bruyère)
  2. "Youth is wasted on the young." (George Bernard Shaw)
  3. "Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older, they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde)
  4. "What looks like cruelty to youth is usually honesty." (Jean Cocteau)
  5. "Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
  6. "Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war." (Herbert Hoover)
  7. "You always have to go steeply uphill in life, it just keeps you young - and makes you happy." (Anderl Heckmair)
  8. "One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood." (Agatha Christie)
  9. "Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age." (Victor Hugo)
  10. "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." (Sigmund Freud)

Tip: In der Schulzeit kam mir die Wertschätzung für unsere Natur immer viel zu kurz. Im verlinkten Blogartikel stelle ich dir meine persönlichen Gründe für mehr Umweltschutz in der Schule before.

Jugend Zitate 31 – 40

  1. "Good habits formed at youth make all the difference." (Aristotle)
  2. "You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing." (George Bernard Shaw)
  3. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." (Albert Einstein)
  4. "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." (Benjamin Franklin)
  5. "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)
  6. "There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children." (Nelson Mandela)
  7. "If we are to reach real peace in the world, we shall have to begin with the children." (Mahatma Gandhi)
  8. "You get old when people start saying you look young." (Karl Dall)
  9. "Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
  10. "Contemplating childhood is like contemplating a beautiful region as one rides backwards; one really becomes aware of the beauty at that moment, that very instant, when it begins to vanish." (Søren Kierkegaard)

Jugend Zitate 41 – 51

  1. „Manchmal muss man erst erwachsen werden, bevor man zu schätzen weiß, wie man aufgewachsen ist.“ (Daniel Schwarz)
  2. "Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." (Franz Kafka)
  3. "The soul is healed by being with children." (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
  4. "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young." (Henry Ford)
  5. "Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make their life full, significant, and interesting." (Aldous Huxley)
  6. "To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth." (Pearl S. Buck)
  7. "Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art." (Heinrich Heine)
  8. "Children are like a book which we should write in and which we should read." (Peter Rosegger)
  9. "To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting." (Erich Maria Remarque)
  10. "I have learned you are never too small to make a difference." (Greta Thunberg)
  11. "The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow." (Nelson Mandela)

Fallen dir weitere Sprüche über die Zeit als Heranwachsende:r ein? Then always come up with your ideas in the comments!

Häufige Fragen rund um Kindheit und die Jugendzeit

What is meant by youth?

Youth refers to a Übergangsphase zwischen Kindheit und Erwachsenenalter. In diesem Lebensabschnitt wird man also erwachsen. Es entwickeln sich individuelle Persönlichkeiten und grundlegende soziale, körperliche und geistige Veränderungen finden statt.

Was prägt die Kindheit?

Die Kindheit ist geprägt von Learning and discovery, emotionaler Entwicklung, der Bildung von Grundwerten und den ersten bedeutungsvollen sozialen Interaktionen – zum Beispiel im Kindergarten und in der Grundschule.

Why is youth so important?

Youth is important because it is a formative stage in which we can develop our Identität, Werte und Fähigkeiten entwickeln and fundamental life experiences sammeln. Es ist der Lebensabschnitt, in dem wir aufwachsen, erwachsen werden und lernen, selbstständig zu leben.

Die besten Zitate über die Jugend als persönliche Inspirationsquelle nutzen!

Die hier zusammengetragenen Jugend Zitate repräsentieren die schillernden Farben, die Leidenschaft und das Abenteuer, die Freude und die Tränen, die das Leben in jungen Jahren prägen. Ich hoffe sehr, dass diese Sprüche-Sammlung für dich nicht nur den Wert und Geist der Jugend festhält, sondern dir auch offers a nostalgic journey through the years that have made you who you are today.

Do you have any questions, suggestions or other valuable youth and childhood quotes that I should add to this list? Then I look forward to your comment.

Stay inspired,

Christoph from CareElite - Plastic-free living

PS: Especially in adolescence it is wichtig, regelmäßig Bücher zu lesen. Im verlinkten Artikel erläutere ich dir jetzt die entscheidenden Vorteile. Wenn du magst, kannst du dir als Nächstes aber auch gern die besten Zitate über Erziehung ansehen. So oder so – viel Spaß!

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Christoph Schulz

Christoph Schulz

I'm Christoph, an environmental scientist and author - and here at CareElite I'm campaigning against plastic waste in the environment, climate change and all the other major environmental problems of our time. Together with other environmentally conscious bloggers, I want to give you tips & tricks for a naturally healthy, sustainable life as well as your personal development.

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