Abdul Kalam

Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

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

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

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

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

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

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.

All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures.

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

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

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.

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

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?.

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.

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.

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

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.