I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
NELSON MANDELAI am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.
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One of the most difficult things is not to change society – but to change yourself.
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Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
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Safety and security don’t just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.
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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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Where you stand depends on where you sit.
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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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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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Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
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I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
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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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Blaming things on the past does not make them better.
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Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors
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The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.
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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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