Top 100 Quotes About Children (2025 Update)

1. “Children are the world’s most valuable resource and its best hope for the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Future Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Uplifting Quotes

2. “Free the child’s potential, and you will transform him into the world.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students

3. “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Family Quotes

4. “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Caring Quotes, Quotes About Kids, Quotes About Childhood, Parenting Quotes

5. “I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.”

— Roald Dahl

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Education Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Book Quotes, Teaching Quotes

6. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Creativity Quotes, Cute Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Joy Quotes

7. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Cute Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

8. “Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Growing Up Quotes

9. “Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Growing Up Quotes

10. “I’ll love you forever, I’ll like you for always, As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.”

— Robert Munsch

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Caring Quotes, Love You Quotes, Family Quotes

11. “Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Quotes About Childhood

12. “How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Motherhood Quotes

13. “Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

14. “Sharing is Caring – Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love.”

— Kevin Heath

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Cute Quotes, Quotes About Giving, Teaching Quotes

15. “Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.”

— Magda Gerber

Also featured in: Growing Up Quotes, Quotes About Childhood, Parenting Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

16. “Children become like the things they love.”

— Maria Montessori

17. “We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object.”

— Magda Gerber

Also featured in: Motherhood Quotes

18. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

19. “Children are like buds in a garden and should be carefully and lovingly nurtured, as they are the future of the nation and the citizens of tomorrow.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

Also featured in: School Quotes, Quotes About Kids, Growing Up Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

20. “Play is the work of the child.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Quotes About Kids, Quotes About Childhood

21. “The child should live in an environment of beauty.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Parenting Quotes

22. “Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?? ‘Supposing it didn’t,’ said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Silly Quotes, Friends Quotes

23. “Dad is a son's first hero and a daughter's first love.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Family Quotes

24. “My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”

— Clarence Budington Kelland

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Quotes About People, Family Quotes, Father's Day Quotes

25. “Play is the work of childhood.”

— Jean Piaget

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Quotes About Kids, Quotes About Childhood

26. “You are kind. You are smart. You are important.”

— Kathryn Stockett

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Care Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Character Quotes

27. “Peace is what every human being is craving for, and it can be brought about by humanity through the child.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Harmony Quotes, Peace Quotes, Quotes About Humanity

28. “You weren’t an accident. You weren’t mass produced. You aren’t an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”

— Max Lucado

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Christian Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Sunday Quotes

29. “There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.”

— James Patterson

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Reading Quotes, Hate Quotes

30. “A daughter needs a dad to be the standard against which she will judge all men.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Family Quotes, Father's Day Quotes, Happy Father's Day quotes

31. “A child needs freedom within limits.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Quotes About Kids, Quotes About Childhood, Parenting Quotes

32. “Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

33. “When children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Quotes About Kids, Quotes About Childhood

34. “The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.”

— Barbara Bush

Also featured in: Learning Quotes, Reading Quotes, Family Quotes, Quotes About Childhood

35. “You can’t be what you can’t see.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Identity Quotes, Diversity Quotes, Rights Quotes

36. “The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.”

— Bruce D. Perry

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Adversity Quotes

37. “Oh the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Silly Quotes, Winning Quotes, Joy Quotes

38. “If children feel safe, they can take risks, ask questions, make mistakes, learn to trust, share their feelings, and grow.”

— Alfie Kohn

Also featured in: Caring Quotes, Teacher Quotes, Teaching Quotes, Parenting Quotes

39. “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.”

— Sigmund Freud

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Father's Day Quotes

40. “A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Caring Quotes, Father's Day Quotes

41. “The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes

42. “There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Values Quotes, Virtue Quotes

43. “Congratulations! Today is your day!”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Crazy Quotes

44. “Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Caring Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

45. “You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing, Storytelling Quotes

46. “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Teaching Quotes, Growing Up Quotes

47. “Teach by teaching, not by correcting.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Teacher Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

48. “All Children are Artists.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Artist Quotes

49. “And if those children are unresponsive, maybe you can’t teach them yet, but you can love them. And if you love them today, maybe you can teach them tomorrow.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Care Quotes, Love You Quotes, Teacher Quotes

50. “There is no single effort more radical in its potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Effort Quotes