Nelson Mandela Quotes

South African - Statesman July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013 Read full biography

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

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

Education, Change, Change The World, You

It always seems impossible until it's done. - Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until it's done. Nelson Mandela

Motivational, Impossible, Done, Always

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

Fear, Courage, Man, Brave, Feel, Triumph

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

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

Heart, Good, Wisdom, Good Heart, Head

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

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

Great, Climb, Hill, More, Climbing, Only

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

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

Challenge, People, Humanity, Human, Very

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest. Nelson Mandela

Rest, World, Poverty, Long, Inequality

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. - Nelson Mandela

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Nelson Mandela

Country, Educated, Develop, Really

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

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

Success, Freedom, Money, Create, Will

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, Small, You

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

Suffering, People, Gender, Poverty, Our

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

Leader, Good, End, You, Debate, Stronger

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, Suffering, Us

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person. Nelson Mandela

Small Things, Simple, Walk, Small

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, Celebrate, People, Victory

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

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

Soul, Children, Society, Way, Revelation

Forget the past. - Nelson Mandela

Forget the past. Nelson Mandela

Moving On, Past, Forget, Forget The Past

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, Responsibility, Name, Powerful

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. - Nelson Mandela

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. Nelson Mandela

Water, Turn, Heat, Foolish, Off, Boiling

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

Heart, Wisdom, Man, Language, You, Head

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

Yourself, You, Place, Nothing, Returning

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains. Nelson Mandela

People, Innocent, Dying, Blood, Where

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. Nelson Mandela

Discipline, Competition, Training, Me

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. Nelson Mandela

Family, Good, Good Health, Time, Health

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, Chains, Way, Others

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

Work, Peace, Partner, You, Enemy, Want

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