Nelson Mandela on fear
Nelson Mandela94 quotes“Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.”
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Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
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Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela 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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