Inspiring quotes of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
(October 15, 1931 to July 27, 2015):
Former President and the great scientist APJ
Abdul Kalam (Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam), known as the ‘missile man’ and
also as ‘People’s President’ died on Monday 27th July 2015, at the age of 83
years, after he collapsed during a lecture at the IIM Shillong (Assam, India).
Dr. APJ
Abdul Kalam was awarded the country’s highest civilian honour, Bharat Ratna in
the year 1997.
His Inspiring quotes are:
- “God is everywhere.”
- “Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”
- “Don’t take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.”
- “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”
- “All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds.”
- “If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.”
- “Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.”
- “It is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.”
- “Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.”
- “Without your involvement you can’t succeed. With your involvement you can’t fail. “
- “All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.”
- "Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realize your hidden potential and power. Let difficulties know that you too are difficult"
- “Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.”
- "The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom"
- "One best book is equal to hundred good friends, but one good friend is equal to a library"
- "You have to dream before your dreams can come true"
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.”
- “God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.”
- “Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.”
- “To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”
- “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.”
- “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 the young people.”
- “Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.”
- “Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.”
- “Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.”
- “Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”
- “We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”
- “The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.”
- “One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.”
- “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.”
- “I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.”
- “Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?”
- “Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.”
- “No sanction can stand against ignited minds.”
- “Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.”
- “War is never a lasting solution for any problem.”
- “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.”
- “As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.”
- “The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.”
- “Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.”
- “For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.”
- “While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.”
- “We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!”
- “Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.”
- “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.”
- “Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.”
- “For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.”
- “A teacher should have a creative mind.”
- “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 realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.”
- “You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”
- “People who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.”
- "One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities."
- “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.”
Great men never dies. They always remain alive in our heart.
We all Proud of you. Thank You sir. Thank you for teaching us all valuable trues about life.