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1931–2015 India
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (15 October 1931 – 27 July 2015) 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.
Also known as: APJ Abdul Kalam, Abdul Kalam, Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Kalam, APJ Abdul
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The best brains of a nation may be in the last bench of a classroom.
Creativity is seeing the same thing, but thinking differently.
Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.
Excellence happens not by accident, it is a process.
Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy but to help you realize your hidden potential and power. Let difficulties know that you too are difficult.
Happiness, satisfaction, and success in life depend on making the right choices, the winning choices. 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.
I am really overwhelmed. Everywhere both in Internet and in other media, I have been asked for a message. I was thinking what message I can give to the people of the country at this juncture.
Most people: they take birth. Earn a living, and, then, they die. Never follow them.
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.
All birds find shelter during a rain, but eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done.
… the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
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.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
I never used any outside influence to advance my career. All I had was the inner urge to seek more within myself. The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come.
My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, "Those things that hurt instruct!" I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.
Don’t take rest after your first victory, because if you fail in the second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.
All of us do not have equal talent. But, all of us have an equal opportunity to develop our talents.
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