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Nelson Mandela Quotes about Inspiring - Page 2

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No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Inspiring, Education, Country

Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

Inspiring, Courage, Fear

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.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

Inspiring, Commitment, Fighting

You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

Inspiring, Leadership, Forgiveness

Nothing is black or white.

Inspiring, White, Black

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

Inspiring, Past, Leaving

Nelson Mandela, Robin Malan (1997). “The Essential Nelson Mandela”, David Philip

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

Inspiring, Development, Weapons

Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

Inspiring, Long, Humanity

Presidential Inaugural Address, 10 May 1994

We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.

Inspiring, Palestine, Apartheid

Twitter post from Nov 29, 2015

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Mean

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

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Inspiring, Stupid, Water

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

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Inspiring, Peace, War

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

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

Inspiring, Beautiful, Hair

Presidential Inaugural Address, 10 May 1994

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.

Inspiring, Inspiration, Compassion

"Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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.

Inspiring, Justice For All, Water

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

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.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

"Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

Inspiring, Winning, Awards

Quitting is leading too.

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

"Mindfulness in Everyday Life: The Heart of Leadership, An Ode to Nelson Mandela" by Donna Rockwell, PsyD, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2013.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Inspiring, Country, President

"Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.

Inspiring, Fall, Greatness

Nelson Mandela's speech in London's Trafalgar Square for the campaign to end poverty in the developing world, news.bbc.co.uk. February 3, 2005.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Life, Inspiring, Success

"Nelson Mandela memorial: Barack Obama's speech in full". www.cnn.com. December 10, 2013.

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

Inspiring, Way, Return

Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.

Inspiring, Sports, Enemy

"Mandela: His 8 Lessons of Leadership" by Richard Stengel, content.time.com. July 9, 2008.

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

Quotes: 666

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