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Nelson Mandela Quotes - Page 24

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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.

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.

Inspiring, Principles, Compromise

You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!

Character, Over You, Comic

The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms.

Country, Iraq, America

"Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation.

Hands, South, Nations

Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Morning, Knowing, Wake Up

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.

Achievement, World, Accomplish

"Mandela's Way: Lessons in Life". Book by Richard Stengel, www.theguardian.com. 2009.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.

Soccer, Sports, Heart

I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.

Revenge, People, Trying

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

Shame, Should, Ashamed

Nelson Mandela's Speech at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference, db.nelsonmandela.org. April 3, 1994.

I'm not going to sit here and argue with you. Just PUT THE BLOODY METER ON.

Arguing, Meter, Bloody

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Reality, Glorious Life, Justice

Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means.

Mean, Fighting, Arms

Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.

Children, Bed, Stories

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Country, Community, Attention

You negotiate in bad faith if you do not forgive your adversary.

Forgiving, Ifs, Adversaries

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man

Adversity, Men, Lethargy

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Lawyer, Kind, Stranger

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon.

Fate, Misunderstood, Canon

Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.

Vision, Conflict, Unimaginable

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

Rest In Peace, Children, Wife

"Nelson Mandela: U.S Is A Threat To World Peace". Interview with Tom Masland, www.newsweek.com. September 9, 2002.

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold

Love, Life, Family

Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

The people of Africa have learned the lessons of patience and endurance in their long struggle for freedom. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many. We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to belief in the goodness of people.

Struggle, Inspiration, Long

It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners.

Fate, Errors, Talking

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.217, Pan Macmillan

AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.

War, Malaria, World

"'In face of the threat posed by Aids we must rise above our differences and combine our efforts to save people'" by Sarah Boseley, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral to subject our people to armed attacks by the state without offering them some kind of alternative. I mentioned again that people on their own had taken up arms. Violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people? If we did not take the lead now, I said, we would soon be latecomers and followers to a movement we did not control.

Taken, Offering, People

Born: July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013
Occupation: Former President of South Africa

Quotes: 666

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