A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1981 and around that time was asked to take charge of the Guided Missile Development Programme at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) by Dr Raja Ramanna. Here he went on to develop India’s missile programme with the missile systems Prithvi, Trishul, Nag, Akash and Agni taking shape at this time.

In 1991, while looking forward to his retirement and planning to open a school for underprivileged children, he started writing down his memoirs. He had always written poetry and was an avid reader from his days as a student in Madras. The book he wrote began with his childhood days and ended somewhere after the launch of Agni. Called Wings of Fire,

When you wish upon a star, Makes no difference who you are, Anything your heart desires, Will come to you.

When politics degrades itself to political adventurism the nation would be on the calamitous road to inevitable disaster and ruination.

future is something, which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he or she does, whoever the person is
– C S Lewis

ability to think creatively.

Don't worry about the size of your problems. You're small, but you're still a part of the whole. That's the most important thing.

Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company.

Courage is the ability to be able to cope with the disappointment of not getting what we desire, and yet, move on in life.

as a society we are trained to not question the status quo.

A nation with a strong base in science and technology is a nation with a strong backbone.

which will constantly try to manipulate you, the better your life will be, the better your society will become. In fact the entire nation will benefit by having strong, inward-looking people as their leaders.

NCERT has prepared the national curriculum framework under Prof. Yash Pal’s leadership

Hard work and perseverance are beautiful angels who will support you.

Evaluating one's own progress in life is not an easy task. Here the student has to set his own questions, seek his own answers and evaluate them in his own satisfaction.