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. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.Buzz Aldrin
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.Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.Sigmund Freud
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.Napoleon Hill
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.Coco Chanel
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?Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.Dwight D. Eisenhower