"We should not give up and we..." - Quote by A P J Abdul Kalam

“If you are born with fame, it is an accident. If you die with fame, it is an achievement.”

“An economically peaceful and prosperous Sri Lanka is the dream of youth of the nation. My message for the youth is to collectively work for an inclusively developed Sri Lanka.”

“There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.”

“We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.”

“Motivation gets you going, but discipline keeps you growing.”

“You have to be very productive in order to become excellent. You have to go through a poor period and a mediocre period, and then you move into your excellent period. It may be very well be that some of you have done quite a bit of writing already. You maybe ready to move into your good period and your excellent period. But you shouldn't be surprised if it becomes a very long process.”

“Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.”

“If you're extremely rich, and you have got children, my theory was, you give them enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.”

“The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.”