Top 120 Abdul Kalam Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.”

— Abdul Kalam

52. “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.”

— Abdul Kalam

53. “One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.”

— Abdul Kalam

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

— Abdul Kalam

55. “The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.”

— Abdul Kalam

56. “For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.”

— Abdul Kalam

57. “While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.”

— Abdul Kalam

58. “A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up – and succeed.”

— Abdul Kalam

59. “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.”

— Abdul Kalam

60. “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.”

— Abdul Kalam

61. “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.”

— Abdul Kalam

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

— Abdul Kalam

63. “Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.”

— Abdul Kalam

64. “Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.”

— Abdul Kalam

65. “The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.”

— Abdul Kalam

66. “War is never a lasting solution for any problem.”

— Abdul Kalam

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

— Abdul Kalam

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

— Abdul Kalam

69. “The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.”

— Abdul Kalam

70. “All wars signify the failure of conflict resolution mechanisms, and they need post-war rebuilding of faith, trust and confidence.”

— Abdul Kalam

71. “Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.”

— Abdul Kalam

72. “India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.”

— Abdul Kalam

73. “One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.”

— Abdul Kalam

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

— Abdul Kalam

75. “What is politics? The political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.”

— Abdul Kalam

76. “India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.”

— Abdul Kalam

77. “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.”

— Abdul Kalam

78. “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.”

— Abdul Kalam

79. “To live only for some unknown future is superficial.”

— Abdul Kalam

80. “Everyone’s life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.”

— Abdul Kalam

81. “When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.”

— Abdul Kalam

82. “Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.”

— Abdul Kalam

83. “I’m not an expert on the arms race.”

— Abdul Kalam

84. “All God’s creatures are His family; and he is the most beloved of God who tries to do most good to God’s creatures.”

— Abdul Kalam

85. “Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.”

— Abdul Kalam

86. “We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.”

— Abdul Kalam

87. “In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.”

— Abdul Kalam

88. “My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear.”

— Abdul Kalam

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

— Abdul Kalam

90. “The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.”

— Abdul Kalam

91. “For 2,500 years, India has never invaded anybody.”

— Abdul Kalam

92. “Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally started liking it.”

— Abdul Kalam

93. “Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.”

— Abdul Kalam

94. “We need to create brand institutions. In the fortune 500 companies, 5 Indian companies are named while 15 are from China though we have similar kind of populations.”

— Abdul Kalam

95. “Developing nations want to become developed nations.”

— Abdul Kalam

96. “Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters – the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.”

— Abdul Kalam

97. “We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.”

— Abdul Kalam

98. “Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.”

— Abdul Kalam

99. “The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.”

— Abdul Kalam

100. “Convergence of our views on global trade issues under the WTO and our common resolve to combat terrorism provide a valuable base for mutual understanding.”

— Abdul Kalam