Abdul Kalam Quotes

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

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.

You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10^27 atoms.

A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.

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.

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

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.

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.

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?

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

Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.

sometimes it's better to bunk a class & enjoy with friends, coz today when I look back, marks never make me laugh memories do.

Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.

Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.

All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

A teacher should have a creative mind.

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

The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

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

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

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

suffering is the essence of success!!!

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

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

If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

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

Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.

Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.