abdul kalam quotes

life quotes by Abdul kalam

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

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

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, God, Great

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
-Abdul Kalam
Dreams, True, Before

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
Work, Best, Alone

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

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
-Abdul Kalam
Success, Enjoy, Needs

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
-Abdul Kalam
Today, Children, Tomorrow

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, Travel

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
Great, Amazing, Success

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
-Abdul Kalam
Happiness, After, Making

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
-Abdul Kalam
Great, God, Anythin,Respect, Free

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

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, Believe, Over

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
-Abdul Kalam
Dreams, Great, Dreamers


"A person should not be too honest.
Straight trees are cut first
and Honest people are screwed first."
-Abdul Kalam

"Even if a snake is not poisonous,
it should pretend to be venomous."
-Abdul Kalam

"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. If you cannot keep secret with you , do not expect that other will keep it. ! It will destroy you."
-Abdul Kalam

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship.
There is no Friendship without self-interests.
This is a bitter truth."
-Abdul Kalam

"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply
and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
-Abdul Kalam


"Once you start a working on something,
don't be afraid of failure and
don't abandon it.
People who work sincerely are the happiest."
-Abdul Kalam

"The fragrance of flowers spreads
only in the direction of the wind.
But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction."
-Abdul Kalam

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
-Abdul Kalam

"Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years.
For the next five years, scold them.
By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend.
Your grown up children are your best friends."

-Abdul Kalam

"Education is the best friend.
An educated person is respected everywhere.
Education beats the beauty and the youth."
-Abdul Kalam

"SP is counting on the fact that years of unstinted support to UPA, saving it on crucial occasions like during the nuclear deal vote, FDI in retail,
 President Pranab Mukherjee's elections after ditching Mamata Banerjee and his own favourite former president Abdul Kalam, will be repaid by Congress in case
if a fractured mandate"
-Abdul Kalam

"DMRC is indeed a great organization of excellence. It is environment-friendly, user-friendly and above all DMRC is an asset to the nation,Good teaching emanates from good research. Any university or institution is judged by the extent of the research work it accomplishes.
-Abdul Kalam

"There should be an equitable distribution and adequate access to energy and quality water."
-Abdul Kalam

"One should not treat education as a business product or system. Primary level education needs to be delivered in an integrated way. There have to be great teachers
 and good syllabus which can promote affinity among parents, students and teachers."
-Abdul Kalam

"How can we forget (1965 war hero) Abdul Hamid and our former President Abdul Kalam? How can we forget their contributions in national development as also in securing
 our borders? How can he (Verma) say that Muslims are terrorists? He should apologise."
-Abdul Kalam

"Dr APJ Abdul Kalam has said that our country will become a developed nation by 2020. This can be achieved if education is spread across everywhere and to everyone,
especially girls who need to be educated for a better society."
-Abdul Kalam
"In the present context, the education system has to be designed in a way that produces large number of employment generators and not just employment seekers."
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person."
-Abdul Kalam(Life, Game, Person)
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
-Abdul Kalam (Respect, Self, Realize)


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

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
-Abdul Kalam (Death, Read, Sickness)

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)


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)

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
-Abdul Kalam (Change, Accept, Willing)

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
-Abdul Kalam (Give, Problem, Defeat)

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
-Abdul Kalam (Religion, Others, Promotion)


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.
-Abdul Kalam (Human, Poverty, Violence)


Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
-Abdul Kalam (Fear, Strength, Respect)


The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
-Abdul Kalam (Job, Need, Become)


India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
-Abdul Kalam (Must, Her, Walk)


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.
-Abdul Kalam (Science, Beautiful, Humanity)
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
-Abdul Kalam (Must, Dream, Nation)

I love the sea.
-Abdul Kalam (Love, Sea)

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
-Abdul Kalam (Age, Optimism, Less)

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
-Abdul Kalam (Health, Focus, Learn)

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
-Abdul Kalam (-Today, Energy, Far)

excellent quotes by abdul kalam

Developing nations want to become developed nations.
-Abdul Kalam (Become, Nations, Developing)

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.
-Abdul Kalam (Law, Action, Fast)

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
-Abdul Kalam (Live, Without, Dream)

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
-Abdul Kalam (Nation, Value, Healthy)

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.
-Abdul Kalam (Life, History, Anyone)

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.
-Abdul Kalam (Give, Generation, Economic)

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
-Abdul Kalam (Nation, She, Nations)

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
-Abdul Kalam (Nation, Follow, Policy)

I'm not an expert on the arms race.
-Abdul Kalam (Race, Expert, Arms)

" Success quotes   Goals quotes   Devotion quotes   Determination quotes   Motiva"
-Abdul Kalam

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


"If we are not free, no one will respect us."
-Abdul K
alam

"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


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

" 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.

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

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

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


"Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength."
-Abdul Kalam


"We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!"
-Abdul Kalam

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

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.
-Abdul Kalam

"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


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


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



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


  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.
-Abdul Kalam

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended
-Abdul Kalam