Quotes from Nelson Mandela
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.
- Nelson Mandela
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
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
- Nelson Mandela
Quitting is leading too.
- Nelson Mandela
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
We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
- 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
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)
- Nelson Mandela
Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.
- Nelson Mandela
I never lose, I either win or learn
- Nelson Mandela
No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.
- Nelson Mandela
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