Inspirational Quotes for 18 Year Olds

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Maya Angelou

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

The most important mark I will leave on this world is my son.

Sarah Shahi

My son’s the most precious thing to me; he’s changed me from being selfish to selfless.

Ricardo Antonio Chavira

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Voltaire

I love my son more than anything. I will do whatever it takes to make sure he is raised the right way.

Bristol Palin

My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.

Russell Crowe

All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn’t define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that’s fine.

Mark Hoppus

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son’s perspective.

Rufus Sewell

I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.

Chris Gardner

I am a family man, and my most important role is a father to my son.

Ed Skrein

I have pride in my son, how can I not be proud?

Alberto Fernandez

The only man who has stolen my heart is my son.

Sandra Bullock

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

Euripides

One of the greatest gifts I’ve ever gotten is my daughter.

Ace Frehley

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.

Denise Van Outen

The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.

David Duchovny

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, ‘Let’s make a wish on a star,’ there’s one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Rene Russo

I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn’t define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.

Isaiah Mustafa

The moment I see my daughter’s face, I am instantly happier, my stress just disappears, and I forget everything else.

S. Sreesanth

My daughter is my passion and my life.

Tamara Mellon

My daughter is the biggest gift; I’ve said it so many times and it sounds like a cliche, but the thing about being a parent is when you think you’ve cracked it, and you’re on top of your game, they change again and you have to catch up and adjust. I feel such a responsibility to instill good values in her, to be polite, to have discipline.

Geri Halliwell

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she’s not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

Josh Homme

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.

Joseph Parry

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.

Dalai Lama

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

Charles R. Swindoll

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.

Jim Morrison

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Helen Keller

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.

Scott Hall

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Tennessee Williams

It’s not that diamonds are a girl’s best friend, but it’s your best friends who are your diamonds. It’s your best friends who are supremely resilient, made under pressure and of astonishing value. They’re everlasting; they can cut glass if they need to.

Gina Barreca

It’s easy to impress me. I don’t need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I’m happy. I’m satisfied. I’m content.

Maria Sharapova

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Euripides

I love everything that’s old, – old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

Alice Walker

A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.

Elizabeth Fishel

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.

Venus Williams

A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.

Deborah Tannen

I consider myself very lucky to have a sister who is also my best friend, critic and guardian.

Ishita Dutta

When you’re a big sister, it’s a great job. I don’t know how little sisters feel about their job, but when you’re a big sister, you’re supposed to take care of everything. And you feel good about it. I do.

Venus Williams

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Pam Brown

As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

Patti Smith

For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Christina Rossetti

My sister has been there for me through everything.

Brad Goreski

There’s no better friend than a sister.

Mary Engelbreit

An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

Pam Brown

If you don’t annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don’t love her anymore.

Pearl Cleage

Sisters share the scent and smells… the feel of a common childhood.

Pam Brown

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Maxwell Maltz

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Oprah Winfrey

There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.

William Barclay

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

Lucille Ball

It takes a long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

Don’t just count your years, make your years count.

George Meredith

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It’s all about the memories.

Buddy Valastro

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.

George Harrison

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

Ellen Glasgow

I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

Aimee Bender

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it don’t matter.

Satchel Paige

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.

Aretha Franklin

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Lucille Ball

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Barbara De Angelis

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

Philip Pullman

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Mark Twain

I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.

Spike Milligan

It’s always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they’re about eighteen years old. If you haven’t made your points with them by then, it’s too late.

Betty Ford

I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.

John Entwistle

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake your accent.

Martin Yan

The first hundred years are the hardest.

Wilson Mizner

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

Janet Evanovich

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you’re only as well as you are.

Anne Lamott

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That’s hard enough.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.

Maurice Chevalier

Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you’re a cheese.

Luis Bunuel

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

Lucille Ball

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

John Lennon

You don’t get older, you get better.

Shirley Bassey

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.

Larry Lorenzon

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Albert Einstein

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.

Kailash Kher

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Brian Tracy

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Brad Garrett

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

George Sand

Regardless of your age, you will always have adventures, unexpected joys and unexpected sorrows.

Betty Friedan

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

Billy Mills

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Virginia Woolf

The golden age is before us, not behind us.

William Shakespeare

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

William Shakespeare

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still.

William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

William Shakespeare

And send him many years of sunshine days!

William Shakespeare

Do you think because you are virtuous, that there shall be no more cakes and ale?

William Shakespeare

Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born.

William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

William Shakespeare

I was seeking for a fool when I found you.

William Shakespeare

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

William Shakespeare