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.
NELSON MANDELABlaming things on the past does not make them better.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.
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I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.
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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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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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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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Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.
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Great anger and violence can never build a nation.
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May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
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There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
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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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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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Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.
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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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You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action.
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Lead from the back – and let others believe they are in front.
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