You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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.
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.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
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?
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
English is necessary as at present original works of science are in English. I believe that in two decades times original works of science will start coming out in our languages. Then we can move over like the Japanese.
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
If we are not free, no one will respect us.
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in human development have been one of the primary reasons for unrest and, in some parts of the world, even violence.
India should walk on her own shadow – we must have our own development model.
Developing nations want to become developed nations.
India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies.
India can live without nuclear weapons. That’s our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
I love the sea.
When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.
I’m not an expert on the arms race.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
If you cannot be silent be brilliant and thoughtful.
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you won’t do anything with it.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
A smile is a light in the window of your face to show your heart is at home.
It is not the mistake that has the most power, instead, it is learning from the mistake to advance your own attributes.
The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Smile, breathe and go slowly.
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Transformation does not start with some one else changing you; transformation is an inner self reworking of what you are now to what you will be.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.
Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous.
More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
I believe that every person is born with talent.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
You have to believe in yourself.
Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
I am not bothered by the fact that I am unknown. I am bothered when I do not know others.
We do what we do because we believe.
Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.
Joy is the best makeup.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
There never was a good knife made of bad steel.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.
The day is already blessed, find peace within it.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how ot do it, and Virtue is doing it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness. Just because theyre not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.
Smile, breathe, and go slowly.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.