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 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 You

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

World Long Rest Poverty

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.

Freedom Shadow Death Walk

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

Great Hill Climb More Only

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

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 You Victory

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

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

Good Wisdom Heart Good Heart Always

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.

Hope Future Suffering Compassion

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

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 Free Way

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.

Beautiful Dreams Forgiveness Roads

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

Humanity People Challenge Human Very

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

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

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Education Children Face Challenges

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 Man Heart You

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Leader People Confident Way

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

People Suffering Gender Poverty

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

Success Freedom Money Create Will

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Country Educated Develop Really

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

Fear Peace Courage People

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

Car Blue Travel Glasses

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