The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
NELSON MANDELAThe impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
NELSON MANDELAFreedom can never be taken for granted.
NELSON MANDELAThere is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desires.
NELSON MANDELALive life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
NELSON MANDELAThe most difficult matter is not so much to change the world as yourself.
NELSON MANDELAThere is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.
NELSON MANDELAA winner is a dreamer who never gives up
NELSON MANDELAOvercoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice.
NELSON MANDELAI like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
NELSON MANDELAFor 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.
NELSON MANDELARacism is a blight on the human conscience.
NELSON MANDELAThe wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.
NELSON MANDELAThe 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.
NELSON MANDELAThere is no future without forgiveness.
NELSON MANDELADo not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
NELSON MANDELAOne of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
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