Quotes by Abdul Kalam

Abdul Kalam

Abdul Kalam

11th President of India

Lived from: 1931 - 2015

Category: Politics Country: FlagIndia

Born: 15 october 1931 Died: 27 july 2015

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  • My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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  • No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
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  • 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?
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  • This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.
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  • Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
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  • To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
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  • Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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  • Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
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  • We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.
    Wings of Fire
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  • 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.
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  • We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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  • We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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  • 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.
    Envisioning an empowered nation: technology for societal transformation (2004 edition), TATA McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
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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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  • You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
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