Nelson Mandela Quotes

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

Education, Change, Powerful

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

Wisdom, Good, Heart

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela

Courage, Fear, Brave

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela

Leadership, Nice, Others

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela

Wisdom, Heart, Him

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Live, Free

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela

Peace, Work, Enemy

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela

Life, Passion, Small

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

Great, After, Climb

It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela

Done, Impossible, Until

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela

Experience, Beautiful, Another

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Death, Through

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
Nelson Mandela

Politics, America, Ask

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

Society, Children, Soul

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela

Country, Become, President

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela

Time, Realize, Forever

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela

Strength, Talent, Endurance

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

Black, Whether, White

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela

Peace, Dream, Africa

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela

Success, Money, Freedom

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

Peace, Work, Water

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela

Good, End, Leader

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Human, Sun

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson Mandela

Dreams, Beautiful, Two

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela

Yourself, Nothing, Find

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Nationality: South African

Type: Statesman

Born: July 18, 1918

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