Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam - Page 2

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

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

For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.

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

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

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

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.

The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

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

Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.

Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

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.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

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.

My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

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

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

God is everywhere.

When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.

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

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

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

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.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

I love the sea.

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

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.

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

India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

I'm not an expert on the arms race.

Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

New markets could be created by rural potentials, which could lead to rise in the employment.

When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.

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.

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?

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

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.

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.

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

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.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.