A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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Small aim is a crime.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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God is everywhere.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
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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.
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Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.
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Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.