Inspiring The Next Generation Quotes & Sayings

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768) — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. — Wislawa Szymborska

I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life was different. New York was different. The music business was different. I miss the simplicity of it, the naivete of everyone around me. — Madonna Ciccone

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving. — Lena Headey

It's inspiring to meet that flicker that ignites your candle with the hopes it turns into a torch to pass down to the next generation. — Jes Fuhrmann

Because of my intense hopes for the youth of China, I feel very keenly my responsibility for their future success or failure. The fate of China lies in their hands. The responsibility for organizing and training them to become worthy citizens of China, able to undertake the tasks of Resistance and Reconstruction, is mine; I cannot evade it. — Chiang Kai-shek

I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist. — Ray Charles

Biologists can be divided into two classes: experimentalists who observe things that cannot be explained, and theoreticians who explain things that cannot be observed. — Aharon Katzir

Do not perform an action for the reward it may bring. Perform it because it is right; it is dharma. — Shelley Schanfield

We believe Skype in the Classroom will be a milestone in inspiring the next generation of social entrepreneurs and we can't wait to connect students with TOMS partners. — Blake Mycoskie

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it. — Ted Malloch

And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and keep the next wave of American jobs and American innovations, who's figuring out how to out-compete the Idea Generations of Indias and Chinas of the world. — Barack Obama

The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution. — Barack Obama

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. — Laura Frantz

There is nothing that succeeds in life like boldness, provided you believe you are on the right side. — Woodrow Wilson

This toast feels raw. Is it safe to eat raw toast? — Lemony Snicket

And good luck to you, tortoise," whispered the hare, leaning in close. "And just so you know - nobody knows this, and if you tell anyone I said it, I'll deny it - but I'm not really a hare. I'm a rabbit." This wasn't true - the hare just said it to fuck with him. — B.J. Novak

If I love freedom above all else, then any commitment becomes a metaphor, a symbol. This touches on the difference between the forest fleer and the partisan:this distinction is not qualitative but essential in nature. The anarch is closer to Being. The partisan moves within the social or national party structure, the anarch is outside of it. Of course, the anarch cannot elude the party structure, since he lives in society. — Ernst Junger

We can't let the next generation grow up without heroes. Some of us have to fight on! — Avijeet Das

Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership, then we'll be using Chinese capability to inspire Americans. — Buzz Aldrin