Nelson Mandela Quotes

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela
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
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
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
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela
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
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
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

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

Nelson Mandela

Education, Change

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Nelson Mandela

Deny, Rights, Humanity

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, Afraid

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

Nelson Mandela

Wisdom, Good, Heart

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, Appreciate, Lead

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

Nelson Mandela

Great, Climbing, Hill

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

Nelson Mandela

Time, Realize, Forever

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, Chains, Others

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, Easy

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

Motivational, Life, Passion

It always seems impossible until its done.

Nelson Mandela

Impossible, Until

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

Nelson Mandela

Future, Hope, Compassion

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, Arrogant, Leader

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

Nelson Mandela

Living, Lead, Leaders

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, Talk

I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

Nelson Mandela

Life, Freedom, Until

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

Nelson Mandela

Ourselves, Poverty, Gender

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, Africa, Beautiful

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Means, Themselves

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

Nelson Mandela

Education, Teacher, Days

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Nelson Mandela

Great, Africa, Problems

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

Nelson Mandela

Whether, Black, White

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Nelson Mandela

Poor, Likely

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

Nelson Mandela

Peace, Africa, Itself

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Nelson Mandela

Unless, Educated, Develop

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

Nelson Mandela

Love, Cannot, Moment

Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Statesman

Born: July 18, 1918

Died: December 5, 2013

How did a boy named Rolihlahla, raised in a village with footpaths rather than roads, embark on a path to become first a master of disguise, then... Read full biography

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