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Nelson Mandela Quotes | Quotes said by Nelson Mandela

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #1

    When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred....but realized later They can take everything from me except my mind and heart

    Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #2

    A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution.

    [Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #3

    A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    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 Quote #6

    A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #7

    A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #8

    Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #9

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

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #10

    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 Quote #11

    As Chief Luthuli said, 'When the women begin to take an active part in the struggle, no power on earth can stop us from achieving freedom in our lifetime.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #12

    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 Quote #13

    Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #14

    Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #15

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

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #16

    Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #17

    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 Quote #18

    Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #19

    Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #20

    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 Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

    Forget the past.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #23

    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 Quote #24

    Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #25

    I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #26

    I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #27

    I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #28

    I am the captain of my soul.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #29

    I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

  • Nelson Mandela Quote #30

    I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.

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