125 Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I knew I was putting you under immense pressure when I rejected your work the other day. I set an impossible deadline - yet you have met it with work that I can only call outstanding. As your teacher, I had to push you to your limits so that you could recognize your own true potential.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being - be it unconditional love, kindness and piety.

See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Sky is the Limit

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.

My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.