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.
Abdul KalamRead
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life is challenging, and true success lies in maintaining your identity and humanity.
In this quote, Abdul Kalam emphasizes that life presents numerous challenges and can often feel like a tough game. However, he asserts that the key to overcoming these challenges and achieving success is to hold on to your essential nature as a human being β cherishing your values, emotions, and integrity amid life's struggles.
Themes
LifeChallengesIdentitySuccessHumanity
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about resilience, sharing this quote can remind others of the importance of staying true to themselves.
More from Abdul Kalam
All quotes βYou cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.
Abdul KalamRead
One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.
Abdul KalamRead
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Abdul KalamRead
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal
Abdul KalamRead
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
Abdul KalamRead
Similar quotes
People always say time heals. Time doesn't necessarily heal anything. It allows you to manage things. There are occasions where you feel the pain as if it just happened, but you know that it's a fleeting moment.
Jason ReynoldsRead
Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.
John LennonRead
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
Henry David ThoreauRead
What I told [my teammates] after the game was I'm just fortunate [for] my 16 years because, this [injury] can happen every single night you go out and play... It can be over in one instant, so you should appreciate everyday.
Charles BarkleyRead
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
Madeleine L'EngleRead
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn HillRead