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
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.
In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
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...
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.
Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
SUCCESS DEFINITION-- WHEN OUR SIGNATURE CHANGES TO AUTOGRAPH ,this marks the success.
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.