Nelson Mandela Quotes

• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -Nelson Mandela
• 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
• A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. -Nelson Mandela
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• It always seems impossible until it's done. -Nelson Mandela
• 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
• Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. -Nelson Mandela
• Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. -Nelson Mandela

• Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace. -Nelson Mandela
• There is no such thing as part freedom. -Nelson Mandela
• Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. -Nelson Mandela
• It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. -Nelson Mandela
• Forget the past. -Nelson Mandela
• 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
• Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose. -Nelson Mandela
 

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• In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains. -Nelson Mandela
• 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. -Nelson Mandela
• 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. -Nelson Mandela
• If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. -Nelson Mandela
• Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. -Nelson Mandela
• Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? -Nelson Mandela
• 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
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• By ancestry, I was born to rule. -Nelson Mandela
• There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way. -Nelson Mandela
• I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism. -Nelson Mandela
• Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary. -Nelson Mandela
• 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
• Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves. -Nelson Mandela
• I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do. -Nelson Mandela
• 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
• I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car. -Nelson Mandela
• Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. -Nelson Mandela
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• I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders. -Nelson Mandela
• There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. -Nelson Mandela
• In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine. -Nelson Mandela
• The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture. -Nelson Mandela
• 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
• The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. -Nelson Mandela
• At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said. -Nelson Mandela

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Family Life

Nelson Mandela had three wives: Evelyn Ntoko Mase (1944–58); Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1958–96), and Graça Machel (1998–2013). Mandela fathered six children and had seventeen grandchildren and at least seventeen great-grandchildren

Death

At the age of 95, on December 5, 2013, Nelson Mandela died in Johannesburg. On December 15, he was laid to rest at Qunu, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. After his death was declared, his life was recollected and commemorated in South Africa as well as around the world. Innumerable memorial services were held, like the one by the South African government on December 10. He is remembered globally as a synonym to peace.

Mandela Writings

Nelson Mandela’s written work includes I Am Prepared to Die (1964; rev. ed. 1986); No Easy Walk to Freedom (1965; updated ed. 2002); The Struggle Is My Life (1978; rev. ed. 1990); In His Own Words (2003); and Long Walk to Freedom (1994), which archives his early life and years in prison. Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years (2017) was the unfinished draft of his second volume of journal which was released posthumously and completed by Mandla Langa.

Nelson Mandela is a fundamental and motivated individual who devoted his whole life to learning, democracy and equality. He was strongly against racism and never tolerated it. He was a nucleus of inspiration for destitute and dejected society. His quotes of wisdom hold a remarkable position in modern human history. He walked his talk and expected the same from his people. Here is your chance to awaken the youth with his personality through his quotes. Share these with your friends, family, colleagues and well wishers and motivate them to be kind and helpful to the society.