Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
NELSON MANDELAIt is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
More Nelson Mandela Quotes
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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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It is so easy to break down and destroy. The heroes are those who make peace and build.
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Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.
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No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
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Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors
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Great anger and violence can never build a nation.
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The time is always right to do right.
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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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Appearances matter – and remember to smile.
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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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Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.
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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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A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
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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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As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
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