Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

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

“As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.”

“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.”

“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.”

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

“I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.”

“Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?”

“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”

“God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.”

“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around

“There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.”

“Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.”

“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.”

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


"Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life."

"Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity."


"When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad..."


"What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of a human being, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful and to remove the wrongs of injured..."


"Away! Fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more! Work claimed my wakeful nights, my busy days Albeit brought memories of Rameswaram shore Yet haunt my dreaming gaze!"


"I will not be presumptuous enough to say that my life can be a role model for anybody; but some poor child living in an obscure place in an underprivileged social setting may find a little solace in the way my destiny has been shaped. It could perhaps help such children liberate themselves from the bondage of their illusory backwardness and hopelessness?.."


"My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear "