Nelson Mandela Quotes

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

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It always seems impossible until it's done.

Motivational Impossible Done Always

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

Education Change Change The World You

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.

Fear Man Courage Brave

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.

Motivational Life Passion Small

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

People Challenge Humanity Human Very

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

Great Climb Hill Only

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

Good Wisdom Heart Good Heart

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

World Rest Poverty Long

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.

Future Hope Compassion Suffering

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

People Suffering Gender Poverty

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

Work Peace Water Bread Salt

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.

Leadership People Victory Celebrate

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Country Educated Citizens Develop

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.

Good Leader You End

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.

Freedom Live Way Free

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.

Freedom Responsibility Rich Name

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.

Simple Walk Small Things Small

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.

Shadow Freedom Death Walk

Forget the past.

Moving On Past Forget Forget The Past

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Fear Peace Courage People

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

Success Freedom Money Will

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

Children Soul Society Way Than

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.

Dreams Beautiful Forgiveness Roads

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

Yourself You Place Nothing

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.

Wisdom Heart Man You

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

Work Peace Partner You

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