Quotes By Apj Abdul Kalam

All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!

If you get No as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity". So Let's be positive.

End is not the end, if fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies".

If you fail, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt In Learning".

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.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

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.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

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

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

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.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.