Leaders Quotes | Nelson Mandela Quotes
1.Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela
2.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
3.I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
-Nelson Mandela
4.As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
-Nelson Mandela
5.Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
-Nelson Mandela
6.Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
-Nelson Mandela
7.There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
8.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
9.Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
-Nelson Mandela
10.No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
-Nelson Mandela
11.After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
-Nelson Mandela
12.It always seems impossible until it's done.
-Nelson Mandela
13.A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
-Nelson Mandela
14.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
15.When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
-Nelson Mandela
16.Where you stand depends on where you sit.
-Nelson Mandela
17.A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
-Nelson Mandela
18.I am the captain of my soul.
-Nelson Mandela
19.It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.
-Nelson Mandela
20.A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
-Nelson Mandela
21.As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
-Nelson Mandela
22.A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones
-Nelson Mandela
23.As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
-Nelson Mandela
24.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
25.May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
-Nelson Mandela
26.One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
-Nelson Mandela
27.Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
-Nelson Mandela
28.What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
-Nelson Mandela
29.In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
-Nelson Mandela
30.Nothing is black or white.
-Nelson Mandela
31.And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-Nelson Mandela
32.Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
-Nelson Mandela
33.One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
-Nelson Mandela
34.You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
-Nelson Mandela
35.There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.
-Nelson Mandela
36.People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
-Nelson Mandela
37.We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
-Nelson Mandela
38.It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
-Nelson Mandela
39.Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
-Nelson Mandela
40.Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
-Nelson Mandela
41.Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
-Nelson Mandela
42.It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
-Nelson Mandela
43.I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
-Nelson Mandela
44.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
45.Know your enemy and learn about his favorite sport.
-Nelson Mandela
46.We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
-Nelson Mandela
47.There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
-Nelson Mandela
48.Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
-Nelson Mandela
49.Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.
-Nelson Mandela
50.A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
-Nelson Mandela
51.I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
-Nelson Mandela
52.We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.
-Nelson Mandela
53.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
54.I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
-Nelson Mandela
55.When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
-Nelson Mandela
56.The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.
-Nelson Mandela
57.Tread softly,
Brathe peacefully,
Laugh hysterically.
-Nelson Mandela
58.No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.
-Nelson Mandela
59.Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
-Nelson Mandela
60.I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.
-Nelson Mandela
61.It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.
-Nelson Mandela.
62.Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.
-Nelson Mandela
63.Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.
-Nelson Mandela
64.The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
-Nelson Mandela
65.He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.
-Nelson Mandela
66.I never lose. I either win or learn.
-Nelson Mandela
67.If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
-Nelson Mandela
68.For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society
-Nelson Mandela
69.Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.
-Nelson Mandela
70.Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
-Nelson Mandela
71.I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his kin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than the opposite.
-Nelson Mandela
72.I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.
-Nelson Mandela
73.There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.
-Nelson Mandela
74.Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts
-Nelson Mandela
75.We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
-Nelson Mandela
Born: 18 July 1918
Died: 5 December 2013
Country: South Africa
1.Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
-Nelson Mandela
2.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
3.I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
-Nelson Mandela
4.As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.
-Nelson Mandela
5.Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
-Nelson Mandela
6.Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
-Nelson Mandela
7.There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela
8.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
9.Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
-Nelson Mandela
10.No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
-Nelson Mandela
11.After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
-Nelson Mandela
12.It always seems impossible until it's done.
-Nelson Mandela
13.A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
-Nelson Mandela
14.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
15.When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
-Nelson Mandela
16.Where you stand depends on where you sit.
-Nelson Mandela
17.A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
-Nelson Mandela
18.I am the captain of my soul.
-Nelson Mandela
19.It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.
-Nelson Mandela
20.A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
-Nelson Mandela
21.As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
-Nelson Mandela
22.A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones
-Nelson Mandela
23.As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
-Nelson Mandela
24.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
25.May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
-Nelson Mandela
26.One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
-Nelson Mandela
27.Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
-Nelson Mandela
28.What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
-Nelson Mandela
29.In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
-Nelson Mandela
30.Nothing is black or white.
-Nelson Mandela
31.And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-Nelson Mandela
32.Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
-Nelson Mandela
33.One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.
-Nelson Mandela
34.You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
-Nelson Mandela
35.There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.
-Nelson Mandela
36.People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
-Nelson Mandela
37.We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
-Nelson Mandela
38.It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
-Nelson Mandela
39.Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
-Nelson Mandela
40.Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.
-Nelson Mandela
41.Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
-Nelson Mandela
42.It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.
-Nelson Mandela
43.I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
-Nelson Mandela
44.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
45.Know your enemy and learn about his favorite sport.
-Nelson Mandela
46.We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
-Nelson Mandela
47.There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
-Nelson Mandela
48.Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
-Nelson Mandela
49.Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.
-Nelson Mandela
50.A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
-Nelson Mandela
51.I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
-Nelson Mandela
52.We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.
-Nelson Mandela
53.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
54.I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.
-Nelson Mandela
55.When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
-Nelson Mandela
56.The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.
-Nelson Mandela
57.Tread softly,
Brathe peacefully,
Laugh hysterically.
-Nelson Mandela
58.No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.
-Nelson Mandela
59.Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
-Nelson Mandela
60.I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.
-Nelson Mandela
61.It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.
-Nelson Mandela.
62.Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.
-Nelson Mandela
63.Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.
-Nelson Mandela
64.The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
-Nelson Mandela
65.He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.
-Nelson Mandela
66.I never lose. I either win or learn.
-Nelson Mandela
67.If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
-Nelson Mandela
68.For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society
-Nelson Mandela
69.Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place.
-Nelson Mandela
70.Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
-Nelson Mandela
71.I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his kin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than the opposite.
-Nelson Mandela
72.I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.
-Nelson Mandela
73.There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.
-Nelson Mandela
74.Only free men can negotiate,prisoners can't enter in contracts
-Nelson Mandela
75.We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
-Nelson Mandela
