Abdul Kalam Quotes

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.
Abdul Kalam

Family, Teacher, Beautiful

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul Kalam

Faith, Great, God

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
Abdul Kalam

Dreams, True, Before

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Abdul Kalam

Strength, Career, Whether

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.
Abdul Kalam

Alone, Work, Best

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Abdul Kalam

Success, Enjoy, Needs

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.
Abdul Kalam

Work, Great, Courage

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
Abdul Kalam

Leadership, Creativity, Become

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

Today, Children, Tomorrow

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
Abdul Kalam

Great, God, Happen

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?
Abdul Kalam

Success, Great, Amazing

If we are not free, no one will respect us.
Abdul Kalam

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Abdul Kalam

Happiness, After, Making

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
Abdul Kalam

Goal, Succeed, Mission

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.
Abdul Kalam

Science, Two, Start

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
Abdul Kalam

Dreams, Great, Dreamers

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Abdul Kalam

Life, Game, Person

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Abdul Kalam

Success, Work, Bitterness

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
Abdul Kalam

Give, Problem, Defeat

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
Abdul Kalam

Respect, Self, Realize

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
Abdul Kalam

Death, Read, Sickness

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
Abdul Kalam

Change, Accept, Willing

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?
Abdul Kalam

Technology, Everything, Why

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
Abdul Kalam

Against, Means, High

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Abdul Kalam

Religion, Others, Promotion

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Biography

Nationality: Indian

Type: Statesman

Born: October 15, 1931

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