966 Quotes by Nelson Mandela

In a sick country every step to health is an insult to those who live on its sickness.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

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.

When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and apsirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry or savour their songs. I again realized that we were not different people with separate languages; we were one people, with different tongues.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution."[Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]