Nelson Mandela's Motivational Quotes

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Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.

• " Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. "
• " It always seems impossible until it's done. "
• " 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. "
• " Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. 
• " If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.  "
• " To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. "
• As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
• 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.
• If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
• A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
• Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
• After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
• There is no such thing as part freedom.
• 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.
• 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.
• I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances
• On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.