The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
NELSON MANDELAA real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.
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Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.
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A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it’s lowest ones.
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Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
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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.
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Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.
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Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.
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Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.
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The time is always right to do right.
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History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
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Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
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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.
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A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
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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.
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