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 South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 14
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 13
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 South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 7
When I think about the past, the types of things they did, I feel angry, but then again that is my feeling. The brain always dominates, says, as I have pointed out, you have a limited time to stay on Earth. You must try and use that period to transfo. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 7
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 5
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 5
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 4
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 4
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 3
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 2
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 2
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 1
It is said that 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, Mr Mandela has said. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 1
There is nothing like returning to a place that reminds unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 1
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 1
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 0
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 South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 0
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 South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 0
There is no such thing as part freedom. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 0
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 0
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 0
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 0
As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 0
We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 0
The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope. African music is often about the aspirations of the A. Nelson Mandela South African Statesman More Nelson Mandela Quotes 0