"When you speak, speak the truth; perform..." - Quote by A P J Abdul Kalam
When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad.
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“I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.”
“Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.”
“Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it's Shillong, it's northeastern.”
More on Ethics
“Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.”
“Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.”
“Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.”
More on Truth
“It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventure into cynicism.”
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.”
“The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.”