Top 100 A P J Kalam Quotes
#1. The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come.
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#2. Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
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#3. For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
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#4. Beautiful hands are those that do
Work in earnest and brave and true
Moment to Moment
All day through
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#5. I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline - yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true potential.
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#6. Within the mind are all the resources required for successful living. Ideas are present in the consciousness, which when released and given scope to grow and take shape, can lead to successful events.
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#7. Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
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#8. 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.
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#10. He who knows others is learned, but the wise one is the one who knows himself. Learning without wisdom is of no use.
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#12. Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.
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#13. 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.
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#14. In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
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#15. Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.
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#16. All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.
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#17. The sovereign way to personal freedom is to help determine the forces that determine you.
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#18. God has not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our life through; God has not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain.
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#19. For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being - be it unconditional love, kindness and piety.
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#24. One must understand the difference between a fear-ridden vision of destiny and the vision that enables us to seek the enemy of fulfilment within ourselves. I
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#25. Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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#26. To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces - desire, belief, and expectation.
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#29. I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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#30. Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
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#31. 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.
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#33. The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
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#35. Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
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#36. The reality of your own nature should determine your speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become tense and high-strung, slow down.
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#37. Great scientific minds are shaped early by unforgettable experiences . . . and some miracle moments.
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#38. My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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#39. How did they feel so secure without anything to fall back upon? I believe they drew sustenance from within.
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#40. I am not handsome but I can give my hand to someone who need help ... Because beauty is required in heart not in face ...
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#41. Walt Disney character Pinocchio said: 'When you wish upon a star It does not matter who you are
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#42. Before God trusts you with success, you have to prove yourself humble enough to handle the big prize.
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#43. communication is a two-party affair which aims at passing on or receiving a specific piece of information.
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#45. You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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#46. A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep.
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#47. My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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#49. Difficult missions will bring difficult challenges which may sometimes produce temporary setbacks. The test of a human being is in accepting the failure and going on trying until he or she succeeds. Managing failure is the essence of leadership.
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#50. A leader can only be free to lead his team if he keeps abreast of all that is happening around him - in real time.
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#51. A nation with a strong base in science and technology is a nation with a strong backbone. By
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#52. If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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#53. Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.
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#55. One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
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#56. There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
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#58. 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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#59. Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
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#60. The greatest danger to our sense of unity and our sense of purpose comes from those ideologists who seek to divide the people.
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#63. 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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#64. that a lot of what happens in our lives is predetermined and that the only way forward is to accept what has happened and to move on. Who knew, perhaps what destiny had in store would be better than what one is grieving over now.
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#65. Came. Despite the huge challenge, it was also a project right after my heart and fired my imagination too. We moved from the design
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#66. I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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#67. 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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#68. If something is at stake, the human mind gets ignited and the working capacity gets enhanced manifold. This is one of the techniques of building talent. It is important to work hard towards your chosen path - success is more a function of effort than anything else. A
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#69. Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
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#70. Wonder why some people tend to see science as something which takes man away from God. As I look at it, the path of science can always wind through the heart. For me, science has always been the path to spiritual enrichment and self-realisation.
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#72. Failure will never overtake me if my definition to succeed is strong enough
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#74. Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do.
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#75. Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
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#76. Leaders can create a high productivity level by providing the appropriate organizational structure and job design, and by acknowledging and appreciating hard work.
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#77. The sweetness we taste in a piece of sugar is neither a property of the sugar nor a property of ourselves. We are producing the experience of sweetness in the process of interacting with the sugar.
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#79. 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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#80. My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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#81. Dream is not what we see in sleep, dream is what that does not allow us to sleep..
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#82. Let not thy winged days be spent in vain. Whenonce gone no gold can buy them back again.
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#83. You must build on the resources represented by our young professionals and by our nation's farmers. Without their involvement we cannot succeed. With their involvement we cannot fail.' While
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#87. Strength respects strength and not weakness. Strength means military might and economic prosperity.
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#89. Political rhetoric alone does not build a nation unless it is backed by the power of sacrifice, toil and virtue.
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#90. God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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#91. How could they afford to pay the sum of 600 that was the admission fee at MIT?
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#92. Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
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#93. Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.
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#94. Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension
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#96. Freedom with responsibility is the only sound basis for personal happiness.
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#97. Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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