Nelson Mandela Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. — Maya Angelou

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up — Nelson Mandela

Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity. — Nelson Mandela

If you can't handle the responsibility of a hit single, don't write one. — Joe Elliott

The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it? — Dennis C. Blair

Maybe if the men in my life weren't always making smart-ass comments, they wouldn't have to worry about bruises so much. — Julie Powell

Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress. This is the approach that gave the world, leaders of glorious characters such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Subhas Chandra Bose (the actual man behind India's Independence), Vasil Levski (the man who liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman oppression), Nelson Mandela and many more. These people were technically politicians too, but unlike the majority of the politicians of
modern society, their approach to politics was what it should be in a real system of politics. — Abhijit Naskar

Don't Judge a person by his success stories, but only with how many times the person stood up, after falling down. — Nelson Mandela

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY. — Nelson Mandela

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind. — G.K. Chesterton

I'm always looking to find order within the chaos. And sometimes when my life gets fairly chaotic, I'll take a walk outside. I think about the order and the perfection of galaxies of planets in orbit and traveling around space and thinking how chaotic the wars and divorces and riots on our planet must look from outer space. — Jon Foreman

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation — Nelson Mandela

I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who are oppressed or suppressed from fulfilling their life's purpose — Sahndra Fon Dufe

Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life; strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak. Are there no human weaknesses? - says man. There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them, would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness? Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong. — Swami Vivekananda

Let's be grateful to all those who came in before us. Grateful to all those men and women, young and old alike, who paved the path forward for us, brick by brick. To those men and women who marched across the bridge in Selma on that great day, those men and women who rallied behind the Gandhis and the Mandelas every single time they were needed, to those men and women who stood up for voting rights and civil rights and gay rights and equality and justice and a free world, those men and women who invented the future by inventing things that fundamentally changed the world from the electricity to vaccinations, from airplanes to birth control pills, from the printing press to the internet. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. — Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. — Nelson Mandela

Tread softly,
Brathe peacefully,
Laugh hysterically. — Nelson Mandela

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening. — Nelson Mandela

I am fully equipped for the Divine Plan of my life, — Florence Scovel Shinn

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me. — Nelson Mandela

When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power — Nelson Mandela

What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness. — Idries Shah

Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy. — Nelson Mandela

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. — Nelson Mandela

Is it sleep you want to find?" he asks quietly. "Or dreams you wish to escape?" She — Robert Jackson Bennett

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know. — Nelson Mandela

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise. — Nelson Mandela

A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire — Nelson Mandela

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite ... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished. — Nelson Mandela

Right,' said Kai, 'that'll be no problem in a city of two and a half million people. Let me just go dig out my special Lunar detector, and I'll get right on that. — Marissa Meyer

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? — Milan Kundera

Robb got to his feet slowly and sheathed his sword, and Catelyn found herself wondering whether her son had ever kissed a girl in the godswood. Surely he must have. She had seen Jeyne Poole giving him moist-eyed glances, and some of the serving girls, even ones as old as eighteen ... he had ridden in battle and killed men with a sword, surely he had been kissed. There were tears in her eyes. She wiped them away angrily. — George R R Martin