Nelson Mandela Quotes

Most popular Nelson Mandela Quotes

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. - Nelson Mandela quote.
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
— Nelson Mandela

children

There is no such thing as part freedom. - Nelson Mandela quote.
There is no such thing as part freedom.
— Nelson Mandela

freedom

It always seems impossible until it's done. - Nelson Mandela quote.
It always seems impossible until it's done.
— Nelson Mandela
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
— Nelson Mandela

peace

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

peace

Education is the great engine of personal development. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Education is the great engine of personal development.
— Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

education

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

success

In my country we go to prison first and then become President. - Nelson Mandela quote.
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
— Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela quote.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

head and heart

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. - Nelson Mandela quote.
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
— Nelson Mandela
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
— Nelson Mandela

freedom

Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.

education

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

freedom

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

education

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Nelson Mandela quote.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
— Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela: The Early Life of Rolihlahla Mandiba

fear

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

achievement

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. - Nelson Mandela quote.
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
— Nelson Mandela

time

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela quote.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
— Nelson Mandela
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into negotiations. Your and mine cannot be separated. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into negotiations. Your and mine cannot be separated.
— Nelson Mandela

negotiation

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

peace

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
— Nelson Mandela

freedom

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

racism

Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.
— Nelson Mandela Long Walk to Freedom

conviction

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. - Nelson Mandela quote.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
— Nelson Mandela

Travel

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 quote.
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

aim high

Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
— 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 quote.
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

freedom

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 quote.
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

language

When there is danger, a good leader takes the front line; but when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back of the room. - Nelson Mandela quote.
When there is danger, a good leader takes the front line; but when there is celebration, a good leader stays in the back of the room.
— Nelson Mandela

leadership

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 committment? - Nelson Mandela quote.
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 committment?
— 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 quote.
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

forgiveness

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 quote.
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

courage

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. - Nelson Mandela quote.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
— Nelson Mandela
Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur.

challenges disasters

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 quote.
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

freedom

A leader, he said, 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.
A leader, he said, 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 Long Walk to Freedom

leadership

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 quote.
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
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 quote.
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

leadership

Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. - Nelson Mandela quote.
Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements.
— Nelson Mandela

communism

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.
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 Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

optimism

It always seems impossible until its done.
— Nelson Mandela

inspirational famous

Let there be work, bread, water, and salt for all.