A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes

A large number of scientists and engineers leave this country at their first opportunity to earn more money abroad. It is true that they definitely get greater monetary benefits, but could anything compensate for this love and respect from one's own countrymen?

If there is a day, there must be a night. If there is pleasure, there must be suffering. In certain circumstances, truth is not choosing between one or another but by embracing both.

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

The next book that I would like to mention is called Man the Unknown by the Nobel laureate and doctor-turned-philosopher Alexis Carrel. In it, he talks about how humans can be healed when both the body and mind are treated together. His description of the human body — how it is an intelligent, integrated system — is explained clearly and brilliantly. I think this work should be read by everyone, in particular those who aim to study the medical sciences.

We should note that human mind is a unique gift. Marvels of universe you can enter into it only if you have curiosity and thinking. I suggest to all of you, thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life. Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is destruction to the individual, organization and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action brings prosperity.

Agni, for me, was a project very close to my heart. I had chosen the name for I felt it symbolized all the fire that we as a nation had lying latent within all of us. It was Agni not because it was destructive, but because it gave us strength and confidence and in developing it indigenously we made great strides in our own technological capabilities. The wings I had once dreamt of flying on were now a reality. They were wings that made dreams into reality, hard work into success, they were the wings of fire that can destroy ignorance and backwardness and fly us towards becoming a strong, developed nation.

I inherited honesty and self-discipline from my father; from my mother, I inherited faith in goodness and deep kindness as did my three brothers and sisters.

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

true quality does not come from a great building or great facilities or great advertisements. It happens when education is imparted with love by great teachers.

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

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.

उनके मन में शुद्ध विचारों की संकल्पनाएँ उभरने लगीं।

seen many happy times as well as those filled with problems. Through thick and thin, Sheridon has always been with me and has been of great assistance in whatever I do. May God bless him and his family. I would like to thank Sudeshna Shome Ghosh of Rupa Publications, who was with me from conception, design to the shaping of the book. She has been following up continuously, with perseverance, in bringing it out. I greet her

"Mistakes". Easy to judge when others do it and difficult to realize when we do it.

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