Abdul Kalam

Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was born on 15th October 1931.
He is the 11th President of India (2002 to 2007).
He is specialized in Aero Engineering.
He is known as the Missile Man of India for his work on development of ballistic missile and space rocket technology.
In 2008 he received the prestigious Hoover Medal for his outstanding public service.
He was recognized for making state-of-the-art healthcare available to the common man at affordable prices, bringing quality medical care to rural areas by establishing a link between doctors and technocrats, using spin-offs of defence technology to create state-of-the-art medical equipment and launching tele-medicine projects connecting remote rural-based hospitals to the super-specialty hospital. A pre-eminent scientist, a gifted engineer, and a true visionary, he is also a humble humanitarian.

Here is some of his quotes:

Dream, Dream, Dream, Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone.

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.

Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when you
don't sleep before fulfilling them.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are
waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or
to the top of your career.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires
only to give the best to those who dream and work.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the
dream of the U.S. also.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has

no place. Only strength respects strength.