“We
should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Teaching
is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an
individual. If the
people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Never
stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique
you. Have an aim in life, continuously
acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realize the great life.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“If
you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.”
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Science
is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.”
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Let
us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“You
have to dream before your dreams can come true.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Look
at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us conspires
only to give the best to
those who dream and work.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“To
succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The
bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“If
four things are followed-having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work,
and perseverance-then anything
can be achieved.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“If
a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I
strongly feel there are three
key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother
and the teacher.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Small
aim is crime; have great aim.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Life
is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a
person.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Excellence
is a continuous process and not an accident.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Great
teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Poetry
comes from the highest happiness of the deepest sorrow.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“In
India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Where
there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When
there is beauty in the character,
there is harmony in the home. When there is order in the nation, there is peace
in the world.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“To
become ‘unique’, the challenge is to fight that hardest battle which anyone can
imagine until you reach
your destination.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Let
me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any
problem. instead, he should
know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The
purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise enlightened
human beings
can be created by teachers.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“You
see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“God,
our creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential
strength and ability. Prayer
helps us tap and develop these powers.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“War
is never a lasting solution for any problem.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“India
should walk on her shadow-we must have our own development model.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Real
education enhances the dignity of a human being and increase his or her
self-respect. If only the real
sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in
every field of human activity,
the world will be so much a better place to live in.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Man
needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“My
hair grows and grows; you can not stop it – that fellow grows, it grows wild.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The
youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.”
- A. P. J. Abdul
Kalam
“Great
dreams of great dreamers area always transcended.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“When
we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did
not know we had. and
it is only when we are faced with failure do we realize that these resources
were always there within us.
We only need to find them and move on with our lives.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Be
more dedicated to making sold achievements than in running after swift but
synthetic happiness.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“If
we are not free, no one will respect us.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Creativity
is the key to success in future, and primary education is where teachers can
bring creativity in
children at that level.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“It’s
when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a
doctor, an engineer, a politician
or go to the mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and
that’s the time you can
work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Ultimately,
education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. it is an endless journey
through knowledge and
enlightenment.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Where
do the evils like corruption arise from? it comes from the never-ending greed.
The fight for corruption-free
ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with
‘what can I give’
spirit.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“When
you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the
telephone bell
rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to
win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Rameswaram
has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Climbing
to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to
the top of your career.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“No
sanction can stand against ignited minds.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“”Do
we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“For
success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative
leadership is vital for government,
no-governmental organizations as well as for industries.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“No
religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or
promotion.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“As
a child of God, I am greater that anything that can happen to me.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Widespread
use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotics resistance. Smart use of
antibiotics is
the key to controlling its spread.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“There
has to be global mission of human progress.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“I
was disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of
being in the company of
great teachers.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Educationists
should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity,
entrepreneurial and moral leadership
among students and become their role model.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Those
who can not work their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-heated success that
breeds bitterness all
around.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“For
me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The
world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is
being continuously researched,
and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact
with the people of
the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power
generation technology and safety.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“New
markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“A
teacher should have a creative mind.”
- A. P. J. Abdul
Kalam
“One
of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the
students ask questions.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“We
must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles,
which can run on bio-fuel.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“I
was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New
Delhi.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“We
must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million
people. Dream, dream
dream!”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“I
was willing to accept what I could not change.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Science
is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere.
Science is a beautiful gift to humanity,
we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple
races.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“My
message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently ,
courage to invent, to travel
the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the
problems and succeed.
These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to
young people.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“I
firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one
cannot aspire enough for
success.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Why
are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our
colonial years? ?We want foreign
television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this
obsession with everything
imported?”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“An
economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the
nation. My message for
the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.”
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Today,
India is a nuclear weapon state.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“We
should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their
power requirements
through the nuclear power system.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Unless
India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has
no place. Only strength
respect strength.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“God
is everywhere.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The
wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“There
is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big
way, and I am pushing
that idea.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Small
aim is a crime.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“When I took over as president, I studied the
Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not
prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went
and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone
welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I
finally starting liking it.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and
happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and
happiness of the nation.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we
in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements? We
are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse
to acknowledge them. Why?”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“I
love sea.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a
developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Smart
habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and
where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“For
me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“One
of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of
confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all
cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“I
have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Developing
nations want to become developed nations.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“I'm
not an expert on the arms race.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“We
will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and
safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilization
heritage.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Almost
half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state
of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary
reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Writing
is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two
hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Nations
consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could
ever want.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The
Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in
particular, are dangerous in this regard.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Measuring
nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of
instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in
relation to the test site.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Wherever
I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I
have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“All
wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need
post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Building
capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Over
the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it
rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“It means,
people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against
righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“How
accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast
action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“India
has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a
healthy nation, with a value system.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“We
have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed
their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life
on them.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“All
the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region,
specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“When
a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“There
are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“My
view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more
imagination etc. You have less bias.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Medical
costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“When
grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in
power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have
to make?”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“India
can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream
of the U.S. also.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“English
is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe
that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in
our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“One
lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating
village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Regarding
marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not
getting married is not an issue.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The
government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a
responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“The
President's post should not be politicized. Once a president is elected, he is
above politics.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Science
has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of
atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8 x 10 27 atoms.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“Every
nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types
of policies.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“India's
trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“What
is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political
politics.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“For
2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
“While
children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means
to make them look like everybody else.”
-
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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