Vision of Dr A P J Abdul Kalam

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.”

“To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.”

“As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.”

“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.”

“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.”

“We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”

“I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.”

“Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?”

“Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”

“God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.”

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

“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.”

“Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.”

“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.”

“If we are not free, no one will respect us.”

“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”

“No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.”

“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.”

“Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”

“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.”

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

" The child's mind is in its purest form and has no divisive tendencies. We should let it blossom to the fullest."

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?