QUOTES

"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

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

"Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."
–Nelson Mandela

"I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience."
–Nelson Mandela


"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 

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

"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

"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 

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

"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 

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

"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 

"It always seems impossible until its done."
Nelson Mandela


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

"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 


"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 

"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"
-Nelson Mandela 

"I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man."
-Nelson Mandela 

"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

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

"I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses."
-Nelson Mandela 

"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
-Nelson Mandela 

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

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