Facts

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Fact: India has banned keeping captive dolphins, stating that dolphins should be viewed as ‘non-human persons’.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
- A P J Abdul Kalam

Fact: The first mobile phone, Motorola Dynatac, was made available to the public in 1983 at a whopping cost of USD 3995.
Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.
- Shahrukh Khan

Fact: In Britain more than 100,000 mobile phones are dropped down in the toilet every year.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
- John F. Kennedy

Fact: The fear of having no cell phone signal is known as Nomophobia.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.
- John F. Kennedy

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius

We must be our own before we can be another’s.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
- Rumi

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Dalai Lama

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.
- Indira Gandhi

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
- Swami Vivekananda

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- Rabindranath Tagore

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Dalai Lama

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Dalai Lama

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
- Swami Vivekananda

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
- John Quincy Adams

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
- John Ruskin

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Henry David Thoreau

There is no substitute for hard work.
- Thomas A. Edison

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
- Bruce Lee

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
- William James

When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.
- Roy E. Disney

Calmness is the cradle of power.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.
- Mary Kay Ash

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
- Michael Jordan

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
- Octavia E. Butler

Nothing will work unless you do.
- Maya An

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
- Maya Angelou

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Leadership does not depend on being right.
- Ivan Illich

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
- Khalil Gibran

The only journey is the one within.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.
- Steve Jobs

Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
- Rudyard Kipling

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Warren Buffett

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.
- Amelia Barr

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened out hearts more.
- Chief Joseph

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
- Joyce Brothers

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold J. Toynbee

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
- Indira Gandhi

The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves.
- Satyajit Ray

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.
- Ratan Tata

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.
- A P J Abdul Kalam

All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds.
- A P J Abdul Kalam

Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
- A P J Abdul Kalam

A P J Abdul Kalam was the chief executive of IGMDP, where he was involved in developing many missiles of India including Agni and Prithvi.
It is very easy to defeat someone, but it is very hard to win someone.
- A P J Abdul Kalam

A P J Abdul Kalam was the third President of India to have been honoured with a Bharat Ratna before being elected to the chair of President.
Dream, Dream, Dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.
- A P J Abdul Kalam

On April 29, 2009, A P J Abdul Kalam became the first Asian to be bestowed with the Hoover Medal for his outstanding contribution to public service. Hoover Medal is America’s top engineering prize.
Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
- A P J Abdul Kalam

Dr. Kalam was a scholar of Thirukkural (a classic of couplets or kurals). In most of his speeches, he quoted at least one kural.
Fact: India is the world's largest producer of cinema, with around 1300 films made annually.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
- Dalai Lama

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- Buddha

The world's first granite temple is the Brihadeswara Temple at Tanjavur, Tamil Nadu.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
- Swami Vivekananda

The ‘Place Value System’ and the ‘Decimal System’ were developed in India in 100 B.C.