Nelson Mandela Quotes

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.

It always seems impossible until it is done

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

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.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.