Nelson Mandela Quotes

Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

I never lose. Either I win or learn.

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

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

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

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

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

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?

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.

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.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

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

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent