Abdul Kalam Quotes - Page 4

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

Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

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

The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

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

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

suffering is the essence of success!!!

We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.

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

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

Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.

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.

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

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.

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.

If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it.

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

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize 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?.

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.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.