A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
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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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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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Small aim is a crime.
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Developing nations want to become developed nations.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
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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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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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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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God is everywhere.
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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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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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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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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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All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
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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 realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
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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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If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
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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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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.