Top 40 Connor Franta Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile.”

— Connor Franta

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2. “Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that’s it. We’re all people. We’re all equal.”

— Connor Franta

3. “So, yes, life has its ups and downs. But those who learn to climb out of the downs and reach the ups will prosper.”

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4. “Add your splash of color to the world.”

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5. “They say the truth will set you free, but what they neglect to mention is what happens when the truth isn’t what you want to hear.”

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6. “Real life isn’t like that. It’s one take, unedited, imperfect, and littered with mistakes that we must repeat until we get it right – a truth for for teenagers and adults alike.”

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7. “Life should be more about living in the moment than fearing what’s happening outside it. It’s about honoring what you want to do at any given time, regardless of what everyone else is doing. There’s no use worrying about things that are out of your control.”

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8. “It’s okay. It may not seem like it right now, but you are going to be fine. I know it’s scary, but don’t be afraid. You are who you are, and you should love that person, and I don’t want anyone to have to go through 22 years of their life afraid to accept that.”

— Connor Franta

9. “Family and home are the bedrock of everything we’ve gone on to do. It’s out base camp. Our refugee. Our only place in the world where we feel completely safe and wholeheartedly ourselves.”

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10. “I don’t think people find themselves until they’re lost. Only then does their journey begin.”

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11. “I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality.”

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12. “I remain a work in progress and will be to the day i die.”

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13. “We cannot do everything; we cannot be everywhere. If you want to have a good time, make it a good time!”

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14. “Life is always going to keep us guessing; often it throws us for a complete loop.”

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15. “Some call it growing up. I call it life, and in my experience, it doesn’t necessarily get easier over the years. But the eternal struggle is beautiful, and I’m happy to persevere.”

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16. “Success involves failing first. Ask any successful person. Ask any experienced person, really. It’s all part of the creative process, so sit back and allow the artist within you to sprout, blossom and flourish. You must accept that your first, second, and third attempt at something might suck. It’s a necessary step in improving your skill. Failure is your teacher, not your judge.”

— Connor Franta

17. “I refuse to live a life of regret. I refuse to hope things will get better in the future when I have complete control over making them the best possible right here and now. We have one life-and none of us knows how long our life will be or what will becomme of it. The possibilities are truly infinite.”

— Connor Franta

18. “Know this too: Some people won’t like you, and you won’t like everyone. That’s okay. None of that matters. What matters is meeting like-minded people who get you, accept you, and will do anything for you. Even if that means pegging some poor kid in the face with a snowball and sitting against a playground wall on a cold, snowy day.”

— Connor Franta

19. “Every second seems like an eternity if someone you love is in trouble.”

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20. “They say that the truth with ‘set you free’, but they neglect to tell us what happens when the truth is something we don’t want to hear.”

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21. “Question: Why does life have to feel like such a struggle at times? Answer: Because without the struggle, the triumphs wouldn’t taste as sweet.”

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22. “True friendship is counted in memories, experiences, and troubles shared; it’s a bond built up over time in person, not a virtual tally on the Internet. It finds you; you don’t find it.”

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23. “My childhood home was a large, light-blue, two-story house with a big front yard to play in.”

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24. “Age might relieve many things, but it doesn’t ease our discomfort with uncertainty. The mind seeks clarity, but our souls prefer to wander into ambiguity.”

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25. “People are beautiful. All people, of all shapes and sizes. The fact that we are living, breathing organisms that happen to have opposable thumbs, allowing us to pick up our phones and be on it for the entire damn day, is nothing short of brilliant. What makes us even more magnificent as a species is that we are lucky enough to be uniquely different – and it’s THAT individuality we must each harness and celebrate.”

— Connor Franta

26. “I just became exposed to the world, like the blinders had been removed. In typical good-kid fashion, I never really experienced the “bad” things I was around, but my awareness of them increased.”

— Connor Franta

27. “Failure is your teacher, not your judge.”

— Connor Franta

28. “While I do not squirm under attention as much as I did back then, I’m also very okay with not having all eyes on me. This is something that anyone close to me would tell you: I’m somewhat shy, not a showoff. I’m a flower that doesn’t require a lot of sunlight. Make sense?”

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29. “In suffering, you’ve found a greater understanding and appreciation for all of life’s wonders. You’re still trying to believe it every day. One morning you convince yourself it will all be worth it, the next you’re down and believe it all to be worthless.”

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30. “You are who you are in this given moment. Label-less. Limitless.”

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31. “I can choose to either consciously live in fear of the unknown or melt into life’s warm embrace.”

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32. “Who are you? Answer; you are who you are in this given moment. Label-less. Limitless. Remember that from this day forward.”

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33. “So know what you like, know what makes you happy, stick with your guns, and state it with confidence.”

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34. “That’s the downside of growing up. There’s a lot of pretending involved. We frequently act like someone other than who we really are because we don’t know or aren’t comfortable with our true selves.”

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35. “Just when you think you know who you are, life has this way of throwing a curveball and landing you back in the town of confusion; population: a vast majority of the human race.”

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36. “Ranking where people stand in your life and who they are to you helps you determine who you value the most and therefore where best to spend your time.”

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37. “Worry is the interest on a debt that may never become payable.”

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38. “I’ve learned from you, I need to go up now.”

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39. “No, the point of this story is that there are only a select few friends, past or present, that I would go to such lengths to stand by.”

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40. “I had dreams. And I had to pursue them; otherwise my soul would have shriveled. The hardest part was allowing myself to want something other than what was socially acceptable, telling myself to go after it, then actually doing it.”

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41. “I surprise myself all the time by doing and accomplishing things I had never thought possible.”

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42. “Why tomorrow when there is today?”

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43. “It’s funny reading about how I behaved in the days before memories formed. So thanks for that input, Mom and Dad – wasn’t so bad after all.”

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44. “It allows you to be yourself, good and bad. And it’s a two-way street: you give and take equally.”

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45. “In suffering, you‘ve found a greater understanding and appreciation for all of life‘s wonders.”

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46. “It’s hard to accept who we are, with all our imperfections.”

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47. “Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs.”

— Connor Franta