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
No sanction can stand against ignited minds.
Interpretation
The power of innovative and educated thinking cannot be suppressed by any authority.
This quote by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam emphasizes the strength that lies in a passionate and enlightened mindset. It suggests that when individuals are inspired and motivated to think creatively, their potential to effect change becomes unstoppable, rendering any form of opposition ineffective. Education and enthusiasm are the catalysts for progress and innovation, which can transcend barriers imposed by authorities.
In practice
In a graduation speech to inspire graduates to pursue 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.
The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.
As negative thoughts produce negative actions, so positive thoughts produce positive actions.
It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that and letting it be a way to uncover the silliness of the human condition-the tragic yet comic drama that we all continually buy into-you could develop a lot of wisdom and a lot of kindness as well as a great sense of humor.
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