Top 100 Quotes About Kids (2025 Update)

1. “Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.”

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

Also featured in: Caring Quotes, Crazy Quotes, Quotes About Children, Growing Up Quotes

2. “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, Quotes About Children, Family Quotes

3. “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: Quotes About Children, School Quotes, Growing Up Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Teachers

4. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

5. “Children require long, uninterrupted periods of play and exploration.”

— Jean Piaget

Also featured in: Growing Up Quotes, Quotes About Childhood

6. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Quotes About Books And Reading, Education Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

7. “Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes

8. “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Cute Quotes, Human Nature Quotes

9. “Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students

10. “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, Quotes About Children, Reading Quotes

11. “The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Quotes About Childhood

12. “When dealing with children there is greater need for observing than of probing.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Education Quotes

13. “If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God!”

— D.L. Moody

14. “While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Individuality Quotes

15. “A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.”

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Storytelling Quotes

16. “It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

— Roald Dahl

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Love Is Quotes, Soulmate Quotes, Falling in Love Quotes

17. “Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.”

— Andy Stanley

Also featured in: Legacy Quotes, Family Quotes, Parenting Quotes

18. “Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Socrates

Also featured in: Teacher Quotes, Growing Up Quotes

20. “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 Children, Quotes About Childhood, Parenting Quotes

21. “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

— Margaret Mead

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Common Sense Quotes, Quotes About Thinking, Teacher Quotes

22. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

— Frederick Douglass

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Quotes About Childhood

23. “I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Happy Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Hilarious Quotes

24. “There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Nature Quotes

25. “Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.”

— Maria Montessori

26. “There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.”

— Dave Willis

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Growing Up Quotes, Parenting Quotes

27. “When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Be Kind Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Quotes About Heart, Teaching Quotes

28. “Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.”

— Jack Ma

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Small Business Quotes

29. “Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So today is my new favorite day.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Couple Quotes, Soulmate Quotes

30. “The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.”

— Maria Montessori

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Education Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About Children, School Quotes

31. “As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Humanism Quotes

32. “Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”

— Daniel J. Siegel

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Parenting Quotes

33. “Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn't considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Lifelong Learning Quotes, Teacher Appreciation Quotes

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

— Desmond Tutu

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, Engagement Quotes

35. “The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

Also featured in: Encouraging Quotes for Students, School Quotes

36. “I love my son and am proud of my son.”

— Robert H. Schuller

Also featured in: You Are Loved Quotes, Parenting Quotes, Blessed Family Quotes

37. “Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by ‘reality’ or focused upon goals. Anything and everything is possible. Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Imagination Quotes

38. “Challenging kids are lacking the skills of flexibility, adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, skills most of us take for granted.”

— Ross W. Greene

Also featured in: Adaptability Quotes

39. “There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.”

— N.K. Jemisin

Also featured in: Positive Quotes for Women, Strong Women Quotes, Motherhood Quotes

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

— Walt Disney

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

41. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Different Quotes

42. “I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.”

— J.K. Rowling

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

43. “Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

— Khalil Gibran

44. “All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Also featured in: Intelligence Quotes, Genius Quotes

45. “And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Funny Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Funny Motivational Quotes

46. “Curriculum should help children gain a deeper and fuller understanding of their own experiences.”

— Lilian Katz

47. “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.”

— A. A. Milne

Also featured in: Friends Quotes, Soulmate Quotes, Cute Love Quotes, Happy Valentine's Day Quotes

48. “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Growing Up Quotes

49. “Every war is a war against children.”

— Eglantyne Jebb

Also featured in: Hard Hitting Quotes, Humanism Quotes

50. “Play is the work of childhood.”

— Jean Piaget

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