Pope Francis Quotes

It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.

I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.

Our young people - their capacities to think, understand, investigate, and innovate - are America's future.

Looking forward, we see that it is the youth of today who hold the key to tomorrow. And we can help unlock it.

We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.

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

Young people are our future, and I always want to help them to grow.

We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need. Indeed, we seem to collect information because we have the ability to do so, but we are so busy collecting it that we haven't devised a means of using it. The true measure of any society is not what it knows but what it does with what it knows.

We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

I realized I was good at developing young people. Eventually I started to believe in young people. I think when you give a young person an opportunity, he always believes who gave him his first chance. You create a loyalty that lasts a lifetime.

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.

Young people, I happen to believe, are the world's most precious natural resource.

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.

Have confidence in the young people, give them a chance, and they will surprise you.

Youth is the ultimate limited resource.

Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!

I have a lot of time for young people.

There's much talk about the problems of youth, but young people are not a problem. It's a natural evolution of things. We, who have known only how to make war and slaughter people, have no right to judge them, nor can we teach them anything.

It may sound trite, but young people really are the future.

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

But even considering these, I have great confidence in our young people as a whole. I regard you as the finest generation in the history of the Church. I compliment you, and I have in my heart a great feeling of love and respect and appreciation for you.

The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the society will run itself quite nicely until they - at some distant point in the future - will take over the reigns. Yet the fact is that the society is not running itself nicely... because the rest of us need all the energy, brains, imagination and talent that young people can bring to bear down on our difficulties. For society to attempt to solve its desperate problems without the full participation of even very young people is imbecile.