Top 69 Quotes & Sayings by Abdul Kalam

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Indian president Abdul Kalam.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was an Indian aerospace scientist who served as the 11th president of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied physics and aerospace engineering. He spent the next four decades as a scientist and science administrator, mainly at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and was intimately involved in India's civilian space programme and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known as the Missile Man of India for his work on the development of ballistic missile and launch vehicle technology. He also played a pivotal organisational, technical, and political role in India's Pokhran-II nuclear tests in 1998, the first since the original nuclear test by India in 1974.

Indian - President | October 15, 1931 - July 27, 2015

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

Abdul Kalam

Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.

Abdul Kalam

Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!

Abdul Kalam

Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

Abdul Kalam

Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.

Abdul Kalam

Confidence and Hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you successful person.

Abdul Kalam

sometimes it's better to bunk a class & enjoy with friends, coz today when I look back, marks never make me laugh memories do.

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If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

Abdul Kalam

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.

Abdul Kalam

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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The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.

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What is the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you gain experience? Wrong decisions.

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All God's creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God's creatures.

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

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For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

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A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.

Abdul Kalam

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

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SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.

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Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

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Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

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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.

Abdul Kalam

Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

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Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

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One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

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IF you Salute your work,You do not have to salute anybody. IF you pollute your work,You have to salute everybody.

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

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Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

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It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone

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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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India must achieve the real goal?that is energy independence or an economy which will function well within total freedom from oil, gas or coal imports.

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Without your involvement you can't succeed. With your involvement you can't fail.

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No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

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If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it.

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Thinking is the capital, Enterprise is the way, Hard Work is the solution

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

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As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

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If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.

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Work with integrity and succeed with integrity

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We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

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When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.

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Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.

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To line only for some unknown future is superficial.

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Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize 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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Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

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You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

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When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.

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DONT DECLARE HOLIDAY ON MY DEATH, INSTEAD WORK AN EXTRA DAY, IF U LOVE ME

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I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.

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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.

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In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

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Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

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The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

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The only day in your life.... Your mother smiled when you cried.

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Success is when your signature becomes an autograph.

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suffering is the essence of success!!!

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If you FAIL, never give up because F.A.I.L. means "First Attempt in Learning". END is not the end; in fact E.N.D. means "Effort Never Dies". If you get NO as an answer, remember N.O. means "Next Opportunity".

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Dream is not that which you see while sleeping it is something that does not let you sleep.

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Most of the time, communication gets confused with conversation. In fact, the two are distinctly different.

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Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

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This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins.

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Top 69 Quotes & Sayings by Abdul Kalam

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