966 Quotes by Nelson Mandela

The knowledge that in your day you did your duty, and lived up to the expectations of your fellow men is in itself a rewarding experience and magnificent 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.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

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.

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

The secret to success is to learn to accept the impossible, to do without the indispensable, and to bear the intolerable.

It always seem impossible until it's done.

Gardening is a metaphor for life, teaching you to nourish new life and weed out that which cannot succeed.

Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all.