Children’s Day 2019: Speeches, inspirational quotes, thoughts by famous personalities

Celebrated in honour of the first Prime Minister of independent India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru — who was extremely fond of children and believed in their massive potential — Children’s Day pushes for the rights, safety and education of all children across the country.

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Ahead of the celebrations, here are some inspiring quotes by Nehru and other stalwarts on the importance of nurturing children with love and care, and giving them the vision with which to dream a better tomorrow.

Pandit Nehru

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.

Nelson Mandela

Children’s Day speech: Nelson Mandela was the former President of South Africa. (Source: Express Archives)

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Swami Vivekanand

Every child is a born optimist; he dreams golden dreams. In youth he becomes still more optimistic. It is hard for a young man to believe that there is such a thing as death, such a thing as defeat or degradation. Old age comes, and life is a mass of ruins. Dreams have vanished into the air, and the man becomes a pessimist.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The soul is healed by being with children.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.

Rabindranath Tagore

Children’s Day speech: Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore on the importance of children. (Source: Express Archives)

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Narendra Modi

If there is education, there will be everything in life. Government can make roads, hospitals and also construct school buildings. But your homes can brighten up only if your children are educated. I am confident that if we focus on education, our society will certainly develop.

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