Nelson Mandela Quotes
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black chief executive, and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
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.
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.
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.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
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.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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.
It always seems impossible until its done.
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.
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.
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
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.
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.
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
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.
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.
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.
No one in my family had ever attended school.On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea."
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
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.
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.
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.
To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
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.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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.
It always seems impossible until its done.
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.
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.
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
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.
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.
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
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.
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.
Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.
No one in my family had ever attended school.On the first day of school my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why this particular name I have no idea."
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