Youth Quote Search

• Challenges and Barriers
• Naysayers and bullying

“Avoid negativity; don’t let anyone or anything stop my dreams. People really get to you. I have had negative people around me. I have lived in bad situations. I always learned just the more positivity and the more uplifting people, people that you have rooting for you behind you the better you are going to be. If you have that one hater friend that is always trying to stab you or – you know what I mean. You have people that don’t really want to see you happy; don’t really want to see you make it because they are jealous or whatever. I guess not letting people like that get in my way…”

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“Everything is very important and I must be lucky where I belong and what religion and culture I came from because this molds me into a better person and a better student.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“At 25 I hope to be graduated with my bachelors. I hope to have a job in the field that I am passionate about. I think I’d want to be living in an area close to LA but not where it’s too crowded, maybe like Calabasas. I would like to have my own business running by then but also be working for a company to support myself. I hope to travel a lot and spend lots of time with my family who are very important to me.”

• Describing Identity
• Race, ethnicity, gender, culture

“You’ve got to work twice as hard.”

• Impact of teachers and non-familial adults
• Pathways

“One of my psych teachers were very supportive of me and worked with me because they saw I had potential.”

• Perception of the term 'networking'
• Relationships, Connections & Networking

“Formality…It’s just like you have to present yourself in a way that you want other people to talk to you. So, it’s like the way you come off may seem like you don’t want to seem rude, but you want to seem engaged. And you know how to dress for certain events.”

• Perceptions of the term 'job'
• Understanding Job/Work/Career

“Purpose in life.”

• Perceptions of the term 'social capital'
• Relationships, Connections & Networking

“Having connections to people in higher places; higher places as in not like someone is better than you but like a CEO of a company or stuff along those lines. Just establishing solid connections—not just like a hi and bye thing, like they said. Kind of make it close-ish, close enough to have trust but not like your best friend.”

• Attributes and characteristics
• Describing Identity

“I’m proud to be unique and quirky because people my age like to follow trends and are afraid to be themselves.”

• Aspirations and Goals
• Imagining their future selves

“[At 45] I think by then hopefully I will be a doctor. Then hopefully I’ll be a millionaire and help all those people that need help.”