QUOTES
EVERGREEN QUOTES BY A.P.J.ABDUL KALAM
"As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me". |
"Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness". |
"Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career". |
"Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance"? |
"Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model". |
"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". |
"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers". |
"Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended". |
"I was willing to accept what I couldn't change". |
"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". |
I"f we are not free, no one will respect us". |
"In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime". |
"It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer". |
"Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow". |
"Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person". |
"Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work". |
"Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success". |
"My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias". |
"No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion". |
"Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise 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"? |
"Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around". |
"To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal". |
"Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength". |
"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". |
"We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream"! |
"We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us". |
"We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage". |
"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?". |
"You have to dream before your dreams can come true" |
"Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life." |
"Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity." |
"When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad..." |
"What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of a human being, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful and to remove the wrongs of injured..." |
"Away! Fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more! Work claimed my wakeful nights, my busy days Albeit brought memories of Rameswaram shore Yet haunt my dreaming gaze!" |
"I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness?.." |
"My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear " |