Encouragement Quotes for Teenagers

Encouragement Quotes for Teenagers

Dear teenager, this page is for you. Following in this will be a list of encouragement quotes that you can copy and memorize for use throughout your day. There are a few insights that you should know which would make understanding yourself much easier.

Hi! Welcome to our website. Thank you for visiting. No, I am not a teenager; I am fifty-six years old, married to a wife and a cat. You may ask what an adult can tell you about your problems and issues you are facing today as a teenager. This may come as a complete surprise to you, but I swear it is the truth: I was once a teenager too. I walked the same halls in a high school as you do, I had crushes on the same type of beautiful girls as you, and I had so much fear of meeting my friends in public and speaking out in class that I could not take it. I caved in and left school to hide in the woods behind my house.

Because of very bad parents, I had to go it alone as far as getting any moral support for my emotional needs. If that happens, you are pretty much history, because everyone needs someone to take their feelings seriously. Everyone needs to know that they matter, and that their feelings are important. Moreover, teenagers need to feel they fit in and to know that they belong. Nothing else matters in their world, and that is as it should be, and it is good.

Looking back on how I saw the world then, I see many mistakes, which made my life very hard for me, and it did not have to be. If you are having troubles socially, chances are you are making the same mistakes as I did. We will lay out a few encouragement quotes that will make your life a little easier to understand.

Once you see how God has arranged your social needs the encouragement quotes will help you navigate these social waters with ease. Encouragement quotes work best when you memorize them deeply, so that their truth becomes automatic. Encouragement quotes are like tools, which help you build the life rich in social enjoyment, which you deserve as a teenager. Encouragement quotes will act as a balance to the low self-esteem you may have. Encouragement quotes will help you see the good side of yourself, the side that exists, by the way, no matter how badly you may feel. Encouragement quotes are God speaking to you; when the world is telling you one thing, God is trying to tell you the opposite. Stop and listen to what God may be trying to tell you here!

Encouragement quote number one

As time goes on, my classmates will become more important to me, and I to them, and all our rivalries were for nothing. I wasted a lot of time!

As you grow older, here is what is going to happen. None of the things that you think are so unattainable, are, and all of the ways you see yourself as being inferior, are not. What is more, the popularity you seek to achieve will happen. All of the rivalries you have with your classmates will vanish and your very enemies today will cheer your successes as an adult. People change, as they become adults they will grow close in deep friendship as years go by. Those who you see as enemies today you will see as dear friends in years ahead. The older you become, the more important other’s feelings and their sense of well-being become to you, and your feelings will become important to them as well. As you leave high school your attitude will mellow, and your heart will soften. Today you may be concerned with fitting in and being one of the group, and wondering how to do that. Tomorrow you will see that you are a part of that group, simply because you went to the same school, are the same age, and you knew each other. Nothing can take that away from you. That is your right as a teenager in your generation. You are part of your group and you do fit in, you just do not realize it yet.

While your school world may seem full of impossible social obstacles, hostile competitors and rivals, members of the opposite sex that are indifferent to noticing you which you wish to impress, all that will change, and change for the better. The person that you want to notice you will notice you. The group of which you seek to be a part of will accept you, and you will be one of its most visible members. All the defensiveness you may feel now and concern about them liking you is all wasted fear. As you grow older, you become more secure in yourself, and so do they. As they do that, they become more concerned about you, and you concerned about them. The girl or boy that you feel is above you socially now will probably be the same one you will marry later as an adult. The person you feel you have nothing in common with now, will be the one who hires you to work for his or her company years ahead. You two will grow very close as decades pass, and your children grow up together. Some may leave the community, but many will stay, and you will see them in your work world as adults the rest of your lives. You will look back at how you saw the school setting as one of much pressure and you will laugh, and say, “Did we really worry that much about getting others to like us?”

To understand your emotional problems you must understand why God is doing this to you. Yes, God is involved in all of this and he is trying to teach you something, and what he is trying to teach you is a good thing, about you! God is the archer, and you are the arrow that he just launched with his bow. Now you would think if he really loved you that he would shoot you right into a target full of loving friends, in a good school with wonderful understanding parents, teachers, and living in a home full of money. God would give you an attractive body and an entertaining personality that is the life of the party. Therefore, what went wrong and why may you be so confused and have all this distress and unmet social need? God intentionally sent you off course where you will not only miss the bull’s-eye; you will not even hit the target. God did that on purpose. God is trying to teach you that you are not an unguided missile, like an arrow or a rock that a cave man would have thrown at a rabbit. Those items have no say in where they end up. You are a guided missile that can home in on its target no matter how far away the launcher is, or from what angle the launcher launches it. You do have a say in where you go and with what friends you choose to associate.

God gave you the powers to meet your own needs, and to create your own happiness. God is trying to show you those powers, and teach you how to guide yourself to your own set of friends and to your own happiness.

However, with every gift is a responsibility. It is not God’s responsibility, or your parents, or teachers, or the governments, to make you happy and to get your social needs met if you are confused or lonely. It is your responsibility. That is as it should be and it is very good. You may feel helpless, overwhelmed, and unable to get your emotional needs met. That is because you do not know how to turn on your guidance system that God gave you. You may feel unable to get the social approval you so desperately need. However, your guidance system will lead you right to it! What all your troubles are is God trying to teach you about your guidance system, and how to use it!

Let us learn how to turn on this miraculous guidance system now and put it to work.

Encouragement quote number two

I am important and my feelings matter, because I matter. When I embrace my feelings and my views, that will help lead me to my place in life, and to my place in destiny. Building my social life all begins with embracing my feelings.

Why might you be having trouble sharing who and what you are with your classmates and friends? The answer lies in the world you live in that we adults do not live in, and that is in the middle grades and in high school. When you became a teenager, Life strikes you with the herding instinct and you must leave Mom and Dad and congregate with your friends. You have such an astronomical amount of social need that you cannot put it into words. It is often hard for young people to understand all their feelings and the yearnings in their heart to go and congregate with their own kind. You need to understand that having this calling of the herd is natural and a part of growing up. Having all this emotional need and confusion is okay. You are okay! When you get with your own kind, you need to fit in and be a member of the group, whatever that group may be. Having the group accept you is supremely important, but that can mean keeping your feelings to your self, since you do not want them to see you as an alien from another galaxy, a country bumpkin hillbilly, or a big ugly bug.

Your world of the teenager is not like our adult world, for it is highly skewed against you if you are shy, introvert, and have insecurity. The teenage world is one hundred percent social. What that means is that you get all you sense of value pretty much from you friends, because you need their approval so much. That is as it should be, but it can work against you if you change yourself to get approval. The Cardinal rule of life wise adults already know is: Never change whom you are to get acceptance from anyone. Acceptance for being something you are not is not acceptance at all it is control! If you need friendship and respect from your friends, then you must be who you are, so they can see you to respect you. Remember, no masks!

Encouragement quote number three

All the obstacles of finding my place with my friends will vanish when I relax and trust others and Life by just being myself.

There is a difference between showing good manners to those you hate, to be polite, and phoniness to make others like you and to fit in with the crowd. Experience and practice will teach you the wisdom of which is which. Do not cause you own emotional problems; on one hand, you may hide your feelings and pretend to be a certain way just to get approval from others, and when you succeed, then you feel stress because you feel others do not like you or understand you! They can only like and understand that which you show them! Be yourself. In higher psychology, we call that ‘being our Authentic Self.’ In time, you will learn the art of being sincere, but it will take work. You do not need to change who you are to find the acceptance with others that you need so desperately. There are many groups within the teenage world, and somewhere in that world is a group of teens just like you. They have the same likes, dislikes, and interests as you and they are waiting for you to join them. Do not change whom you are to fit in with a group that does not mirror your values. Many teens make the mistake of believing that their feelings and views on things must change to fit in with the main group. Do not change your feelings, and hide them, seek another group!

Encouragement quote number four

I will practice putting what I feel into words, if I can define it, I can overcome it.

One of the differences between teens and adults is that you teenagers often cannot put what you are feeling into words. This gives you a sense of powerlessness over your hearts, which can be overwhelming. Oftentimes you become very frustrated because of this. You may feel all confused inside, and do not know where to begin. The fact that as a teenager you are also embracing the first callings of love and romance in very strong ways does not help matters either. Sometimes the feelings of love and crushes can be too much. The answer is for you to practice putting your feelings and desires into words. Get in the mental practice of becoming aware of your feelings and precisely defining them and quantifying them. Love, hate, desire, fear, jealousy, apprehension, attraction, impressed with, why, towards whom and what, are all words that you can use. Be on the lookout for new words that you can add to your dictionary. As time goes by your inventory of words will increase, and your ability to define and quantify you feelings and needs will expand. Why do we need to do that? Because when it becomes time to share what is bothering you, it will be easier when you can define precisely what your need is. Even when you do not share it with others, the fact you can put it into words will give you a sense of power and control over your life. Remember, God brought all the animals to Adam for him to name. God knew if Adam could name all the animals, or objects in his environment, he would have dominion over them. So too can you! Practice naming the animals in your stable and in your forests that endanger you and you can have dominion over them as well.

Encouragement quote number five

I will practice sharing my feelings with others in socially appropriate ways.

Along with feeling our feelings is the skill of knowing when and how to share those feelings adequately, to get them validated. There are times when you must be polite to those whom you do not like, when you would love to crush them like a bug. The adult rule of thumb is to be polite always. It is of no concern to your enemies that you do not like them, and sharing that bit of unwelcome information is a waste of time. The truth is they already know you hate their guts, without you telling them, so why bother. You should focus all your emotional energy of sharing who you are and what you feel on the positive side of your life, with those in private you care about and have much in common. It is also appropriate to share your feelings in the public arena regarding community subjects as political thought and civic interests. It is not appropriate to share your private emotions in the public arena such as kissing your girl or boyfriend in a line at McDonalds, other than as a greeting. You may be proud you have a newly found pretty girlfriend, and want to show her off, but it is a source of amusement to the fifty-year-old truck driver sitting in the booth behind you. He is not impressed. Time and experience will give you the mastery of being open and honest, and sharing your feelings as they need to be shared.

Encouragement quote number six

I am beautiful just as I am. I do not need to change anything about me, nor hide my feelings, or change my views on life, for they are part of the beauty in me.

Some teenager girls think that beauty and charisma are the milestones of achievement. If you are slim, petite, tall, and eloquent, then you have arrived! Just the opposite is true. If you will look closely at the most popular people in school, you will see the ones with the deepest friendships are those who are the most honest and open. They are the ones whom you feel the most comfortable in their company. They are not the ones who have the most outgoing personalities, are the most entertaining, and can keep you laughing. Give up on the race for beauty if you are a girl, for you do not need it to win. If you want to feel beautiful, share what is inside you. Your outside beauty does not matter, what is in your mind and in your heart is all that matters. Boys first will look at outer beauty, but they will not stay with you if you cannot share the beauty within. Commit this encouragement quote to heart; I do not need to be liked for being pretty; I need to be liked for whom I am inside.

Encouragement quote number seven

Life needs my contribution in this world. Moreover, there is a place for me, and my dreams will lead me to that place.

The last element in turning on your guidance system is to understand that God gave you a gift. That gift is your individuality. There is something inside you, which makes you very special. It is different from anything inside anyone else on earth. That difference is a statement God wishes to share with the entire world. It is a promise, a possibility, and a message to all humankind, in a form and in terms that only you can deliver. However, you are the only one who knows what that message is. If you start focusing on the dreams you want to achieve, and on developing the talents God gave you, then life will guide you to exactly where you are supposed to be. Get in touch with your heart's dreams and then make the decisions consistent with that dream. At the end of your road will be your happiness in a place only meant for you!

Go ahead and put these affirmations to the test, your new friends and social life are waiting!

For more encouragement, and learning about the internal powers God gave us, please consider our book Overcoming Depression from Emotional Abuse/The Tools of Your Mind. Written for teens and adults alike, we talk about the whole overview of our soul’s journey as we follow our heart’s dreams to our ultimate destiny. We answer many questions about selfishness, prosperity, psychotherapy, and finding our dreams and happiness. We talk much about our boundaries. We also talk about the spiritual controls we have within to bring our good to us. Those controls are our Sincerity Switch, Spontaneity Switch, and lastly our Feelings and Dreams Switch. Thank you for visiting us today and please keep in touch, sharing your trials and your victories with us. We promise to answer personally every Email that we receive.

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A note to parents on encouragement quotes

Encouragement quotes can be from scripture as we study God’s word, however for most teenagers, emotional troubles and social needs may seem to have little in common with God’s directives in the Bible.

Encouragement quotes are not a stand-alone substitute for the love of a parent. Studies show that contrary to what your teenager may show you, your teenager needs the love and attention of their parent now more than ever. The trick is to be available for them. You are not their best friend, but they desperately need you occasionally. The best parent makes time when their teen needs to talk, and listens respectfully when they do.

The best encouragement is just attention from an understanding adult. Teenagers benefit from family ritual such as trips and vacationing together, as well as eating together in the evening. They may complain, but attendance should be mandatory. They will remember it with fondness later. In the teen-parent relationship, encouragement to your kid is the main ingredient.

Encouragement is critical when teens experience trauma and catastrophe. School life exposes them to more violence than in earlier generations due to the news and computers. All this massive influx of reality means your teen needs to talk more to you than you may think. Be watchful for signs of needing to share or ask questions.

One of the best ways to be of encouragement to your teenager is to show them that their feelings matter to you. Do not try to sort out or explain their feelings to them, or show them how immature their feelings are. They will come to realize that on their own years later.

Take them seriously on their terms today. Years later, they will remember when you felt their pain and confusion, for you have showed them that they are important. Encouragement comes not only from letting them sort it all out for themselves, but also in showing that their emotional comfort is supremely important. You can also give encouragement to them by sharing what it was like when you were young, but do not be surprised if they do not understand, for someday they will!

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Shayne and Lori North