Quotes By Abdul Kalam

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

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

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

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

English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.

One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

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

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.

Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.

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.

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

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.