“We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!”
"In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime."
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Awareness
"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?"
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Awareness
"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?"
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Awareness
"My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed."
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Courage
"The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation."
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Motivation
"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
- Theodore Roosevelt
Vision
"Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs."
- Vaclav Havel
Vision
"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker
Vision
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real."
- Tupac Shakur
Vision
"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further."
- Thomas Carlyle
Vision