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. - Nelson Mandela

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

Motivational, Impossible, Done, Always

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

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

Wisdom, Good, Heart, Good Heart, Always

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, Only, Climbing

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

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, Rights

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

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

World, Rest, Poverty, Injustice, Long

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, Victory, People

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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, Rich, Powerful

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, Citizens, Really

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, Walk, Simple, Small, Going

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

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

Fear, Courage, Peace, People, Courageous

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, Walk, Shadow, Reach, Us

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

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, Find, 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. Nelson Mandela

Wisdom, Man, Heart, Language, You, Talk

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. Nelson Mandela

Car, Travel, Blue, Glasses, Driving, Cap

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

Children, Soul, Society, Way, Revelation

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

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

Freedom, Achievement, Sun, Never, Human

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

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

Work, Peace, Water, Bread, Salt

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

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, Heat, Turn, Foolish, Off, Boiling

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, Forgiveness, Beautiful, Roads

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