Abdul Kalam
Abdul Kalam
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen "A. P. J." Abdul Kalamwas the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. A career scientist turned politician, Kalam 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 Organisationand Indian Space Research Organisationand was intimately involved in India's civilian space program and military missile development efforts. He thus came to be known...
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth15 October 1931
CityRameswaram, India
Abdul Kalam quotes about
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.
No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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?
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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.
War is never a lasting solution for any problem.
Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.
Behind the parents stands the school, and behind the teacher the home.
The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.