From 2002 until 2007, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presided as India’s eleventh president. He was a scientist and engineer before becoming president, and he was instrumental in developing India’s military missile program as well as its civilian space program. His birthday was October 15, 1931, and he died on July 27, 2015, in Shillong, Meghalaya. He was born in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu, India. Known as the “Missile Man of India” for his contributions to Indian missile technology, he was also known as the “People’s President” for his modesty and humility. Millions of young Indians look forward to him as an inspiration and a visionary.
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Abdul Kalam Quotes
- Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.
- Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
- 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 the perseverance to realize a great life.
- To become ‘unique,’ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.
- Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
- If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.
- To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
- 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.
- Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
- The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise… Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.
- If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
- 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.
- 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.
- Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
- Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
- One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
- Small aim is a crime.
- God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
- Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
- Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
- If we are not free, no one will respect us.
- Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.
- One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
- Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
- Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases 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.
- Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
- Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
- Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
- No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
- 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.
- 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.
