966 Quotes by Nelson Mandela

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

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

I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can’t reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides.

I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn’t even believe in apartheid.

Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld – a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience.

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.

No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity.

Appearances matter – and remember to smile.