Kofi Annan Quotes

We need to harness the boundless energy and creativity of our youth.

Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace.

I see the energy of young people as a real force for positive change.

Our Party attaches great importance to the work with young people and firmly believes in them.

It is easy to overlook the importance of the young in underdeveloped countries. It is the natural course for nations, and diplomats, and those who publish newspapers, to speak to the established order. Seeking out the young requires a conscious effort.

Most organizations see young people as problems to be solved. We see young people as problem-solvers.

It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They are the new age power.

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

It's always nice to share your energy with young people, the people who might not have any skills but are simply willing to be a part of it.

We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.

Let us acknowledge and celebrate what youth can do to build a safer, more just world. Let us strengthen our efforts to include young people in policies, programmes and decision-making processes that benefit their futures and ours.

I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.

I don't know about the world, but I know kids. And I feel like sometimes kids don't get involved because they think, what can I do? I'm just a kid. And really kids can do so much.

Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.

We have to let young people know that we care about them and their future. I want to involve them to a level where they become the leaders and the advocates because, right now, a lot of these young people don't believe they have an advocate.

I just think it's crazy that we don't think that the youth are valid. They're the ones who really know what's going on.

Empowering the youth is our responsibility, and the youth will be empowered with more investment on them.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.

Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace. If, however, they are left on society's margins, all of us will be impoverished. Let us ensure that all young people have every opportunity to participate fully in the lives of their societies.

Give young people a greater voice. They are the future and they are much wiser than we give them credit for.

If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.