Children’s Day : Top Quotes by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on Bal Diwas

The whole India will be celebrating the birth anniversary of its first prime minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, November 14, is celebrated as Children’s Day in India since 1959.

Earlier, the children’s day was being celebrated on 20th November but after the death of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru it was decided to celebrate Nehru’s birth anniversary as Children’s Day. The decision to celebrate Pt. Nehru’s birthday as Children’s Day was taken as he was very popular among children and fondly called Chacha Nehru by them.

Children’s Day Quotes By Jawaharlal Nehru

• Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
• Let us be little humble, let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.
• Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

• The children of today will make the India of tomorrow. The way we bring them up will determine the future of the country.
• I may not have time for adults, but I have enough time for children.
• 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.

• A university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search for truth.
• The object of education was to produce a desire to serve the community as a whole and to apply the Knowledge gained not only for personal but for public welfare.

• Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit.
• Only through right education can a better order of society be built up.

• Children do not think of differences amongst themselves.
• As they grow up, unfortunately, their natural freedom is often eclipsed by teaching and behaviour of elders. At school, they learn many things, which are no doubt useful, but they gradually forget that essential thing to be human and kind, playful and make life richer for ourselves and others.

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• The vast army of children across the world, outwardly different kinds of clothes, and yet so very like another. If you bring them together, they play or quarrel, but even their quarrel is some kind of play. They do not think of differences amongst themselves, the difference between class or caste or colour or status. They are wiser than their father(s) or mother(s)

• The only way to reform them (children) is to win them over with love. So long as a child is unfriendly, you can't mend his ways. He can be disciplined, if his attention is drawn to some other activity, like a voluntary body in Delhi (1960s) "Bal Sahyog" used to do. They learn many things there during vocations, without any compulsion of sort and then their minds get diverted to constructive channels.

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Children’s Day Quotes By Famous Personalities

• Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child’s life, we add light and healing to our own lives. – Oprah Winfrey
• There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. - Nelson Mandela

• There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. - Walt Streightiff
• In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. - Robert Brault
• A child can always teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to be always busy with something and know how to demand with all his might what you want. – Paulo Coelho

• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. - Denis Waitley
• You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance. - Franklin P. Jones
• Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility. - Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
• Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price. - Victor Hugo
• The first happiness of a child is to know that he is loved. - Don Bosco
• 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

• We cannot fashion our children after our desires. We must have them and love them as God has given them to us. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless. - L.R. Knost
• We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, we forget that he is someone today. - Stacia Tauscher

• The secret of genius is to preserve the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley
• The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. - Jane Smiley
• Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore
• The best way to make children good is to make them happy. - Oscar Wilde