Does anyone have an inspirational quote about growing up?

Question

i need a quote to put in the year book, under my senior picture.
i want it to be inspirational, but not cheesy.

Answer 1

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.


--- Robert Fulghum

Answer 2

Unsure if these quote is inspirational, but I like this quote by Danny Kaye. He said ...

"Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can."


A guy name Peter Gray said this: "The world is so full of marvels to discover never let a day pass without astonishing yourself."


Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and the best you have to give."


A letter to her daughter, Judy Green Herbstreit wrote: "The best thing you can do is believe in yourself. Don't be afraid to try. Don't be afraid to fail.... Just dust yourself off and try again...."


Walt Disney: "If you can dream it, you can do it."

Answer 3

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

Rather long I know, great poem on life though. The last verse sums it up well.

Answer 4

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
Margaret Fuller.
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There is always a moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Graham Green.
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Unknown
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
Jesse Jackson
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You're one of a kind.
Hugo, from the movie The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won't do that.
Walt Disney
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Answer 5

By Mother Goose:
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace;
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go;
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for its living;
But the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

Answer 6

the hardest part of growing up is figuring out what to hold on to and what to leave behind

Answer 7

The older you get, the more aches and pains you will notice. Don't let the world scare, after all what doesn't kill you is great. And what does, well it doesn't matter cause your dead. ^_^

Answer 8

growing up is similar to growing old, but without the grey hair and wrinkles ;) H

Answer 9

a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

-- Kevin Smith

Answer 10

What a ride !! Now a new era begins.