THOUGHT PROVOKING WORDS FROM NELSON MANDELA

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

Wisdom , Good , Heart
A good head and a good heart are always a
formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela


Leadership, Appreciate , Lead
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


Courage, Fear , Afraid
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


Deny , Rights, Humanity
To deny people their human rights is to
challenge their very humanity.
Nelson Mandela


Great , Climbing , Hill
After climbing a great hill, one only finds
that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela


Motivational , Life , Passion
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


Time , Realize , Forever
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Chains , Others
For to be free is not merely to cast off
one's chains, but to live in a way that
respects and enhances the freedom of
others.
Nelson Mandela

Wisdom , Heart , Talk
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.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Death , Easy
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

Life , Freedom, Until
I will not leave South Africa, nor will I
surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice
and militant action can freedom be won.
The struggle is my life. I will continue
fighting for freedom until the end of my
days.
Nelson Mandela

Ourselves , Poverty , Gender
We pledge ourselves to liberate all our
people from the continuing bondage of
poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and
other discrimination.
Nelson Mandela

Future, Hope , Compassion
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.
Nelson Mandela

Impossible , Until
It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela

Love, Peace , Child
Give a child love, laughter and peace, not
AIDS.
Nelson Mandela

Peace , Government, Against
There are many people who feel that it is
useless and futile to continue talking about
peace and non-violence against a
government whose only reply is savage
attacks on an unarmed and defenceless
people.
Nelson Mandela


Living , Lead, Leaders
Leaders in all spheres who are living with
HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to
lead by example and disclose their HIV
status.
Nelson Mandela

Society, Soul , Revelation
There can be no keener revelation of a
society's soul than the way in which it
treats its children.
Nelson Mandela

Time , Good , Family
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me
of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I
am still in good health, with my family, my
friends and also with myself.
Nelson Mandela

Black , Act , Effort
The titanic effort that has brought liberation
to South Africa, and ensured the total
liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of
redemption for the black people of the
world.
Nelson Mandela

Dreams , Africa, Beautiful
If there are dreams about a beautiful South
Africa, there are also roads that lead to
their goal. Two of these roads could be
named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson Mandela

Whether, Black , White
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a
barbaric thing, whether it comes from a
black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

Great , Africa , Problems
I dream of the realization of the unity of
Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their
efforts to solve the problems of this
continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of
our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela

Poor , Likely
If you are poor, you are not likely to live
long.
Nelson Mandela

Peace , Africa, Itself
I dream of an Africa which is in peace.