As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
NELSON MANDELADisabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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Appearances matter – and remember to smile.
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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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The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.
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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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It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.
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Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.
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There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires.
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No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity.
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If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important – and you do that by being genuine and humble.
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I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
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You mustn’t compromise your principles, but you mustn’t humiliate the opposition. No one is more dangerous than one who is humiliated.
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A 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.
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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
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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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