For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamRead
If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
Interpretation
Following a great aim with knowledge, hard work, and perseverance leads to success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of setting ambitious goals and the essential attributes needed to achieve them. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam conveys that with determination—represented by hard work and perseverance—and the foundation of knowledge, any individual can overcome challenges and reach their aspirations.
In practice
During a motivational speech to students about pursuing their dreams.
For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
Over the years, I had nurtured the hope to be able to fly; to handle a machine as it rose higher and higher in the stratosphere was my dearest dream.
It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
Your destination might not end up being exactly what you envisioned to start with, but if you stick it out and work through the challenges, what you end up with will be far better than you could have ever imagined.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
The land of burnout is not a place I ever want to go back to.
50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?
I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.