Don’t judge life by success or failures, PM advises children

Asked what he would be if not a politician, Narendra Modi said he would like to be a child.

May 09, 2015 01:30 pm | Updated April 03, 2016 01:05 am IST - Raipur

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday asked school students not to judge their lives through a prism of success or failures but look for positives in everything.

Interacting with schoolchildren at Education city at Javanga town in Dantewada district of south Chhattisgarh, Mr.Modi advised them to have a clear goal in their lives and work hard towards achieving it.

“Difficulties and failures are a part of life. I have faced failures at every step in my life. But you should learn from your failures. Those who don’t learn from their failures, never succeed in their lives,” he said while answering to a question from Kishan Mandavi, a class 9th student from Dantewada.

When asked if he doesn’t get tired after 18 hours working every day, the prime minister said, "I don’t count how many hours I work every day. You don’t get tired if you like you work. I consider 125 crore people of India as my family and work for them. You cannot get tired when you’re working for your own people.”

To a question on what he would have loved to be in his life if not a politician, Mr.Modi said that he would have loved to remain a kid all this life.

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