Nelson Mandela Quotes

• Sport has the power to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

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  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

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  Tags in Learning, Courage

• Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

  Nelson Mandela

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• A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

  Nelson Mandela

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

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• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

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• I have been only one in a large army of people, to all of whom the credit for any success of achievement is due.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Achievement, Success

• Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding & sweet as successful children.

  Nelson Mandela

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• A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty & integrity, to reach for the stars.

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

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  Tags in People

• Without democracy there cannot be peace.

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• Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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  The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Perseverance, Glory

• Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Policy, Conditions

• 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.

  Nelson Mandela

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  Tags in Freedom, Help, Important

• My son has died of AIDS.

  Nelson Mandela

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  Tags in Son, Died, Aids

• If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Long, Poor

• I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humble, Before, Here

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Time, Wife

• I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

  Nelson Mandela

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  Tags in Thinking, Both, West

Nelson Mandela (116)

Birth:	18th July, 1918
Death:	5th December, 2013
Nationality:	South African
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician, Social Worker, Statesman

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