Nelson Mandela Too Small Quotes & Sayings

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person. — Nelson Mandela

We fought injustice wherever we found it, no matter how large, or how small, and we fought injustice to preserve our own humanity. — Nelson Mandela

You can start changing our world for the better daily, no matter how small the action. — Nelson Mandela

I lose my patience, and I own it too,
When works are censur'd, not as bad but new;
While if our Elders break all reason's laws,
These fools demand not pardon but Applause. — Alexander Pope

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person, — Nelson Mandela

I think that life is a friggin' magic carpet ride - it's amazing. Everything about life is mysterious and beautiful and touching and tragic and lovely and mystical. — Elizabeth Lesser

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy — Julia Gregson

Besides, it was all very well to criticise the works of others, but in fact it was quite hard, he discovered, to tell a story. — Iain Pears

Some mornings I walked out into the courtyard and every living thing there, the seagulls and wagtails, the small trees, and even the stray blades of grass seemed to smile and shine in the sun. It was at such times, when I perceived the beauty of even this small, closed-in corner of the world, that I knew that some day my people and I would be free. — Nelson Mandela

The virtue and the strength of UWC is that it provides small, but powerful cells of innovation, catalysts for change, breaking barriers of habit and opening broader vistas of experience for both pupils and educationalists. — Nelson Mandela

But now it's kind of a given that a 15-year-old would have a record deal and sell a quarter of a million records. No one's expecting her to answer any deep theological questions. And I'll tell you, I was asked some deep theological questions from the git-go. — Amy Grant

One day, I was on the front lawn of the property and aimed the gun at a sparrow perched high in a tree. Hazel Goldreich, Arthur's wife, was watching me and jokingly remarked that I would never hit the target. But she had hardly finished the sentence when the sparrow fell to the ground. I turned to her and was about to boast, when the Goldreichs' son Paul, then about five years old, turned to me with tears in his eyes and said, "David, why did you kill that bird? Its mother will be sad." My mood immediately shifted from one of pride to shame; I felt that this small boy had far more humanity than I did. It was an odd sensation for a man who was the leader of a nascent guerrilla army. — Nelson Mandela

There is God, there is you and there is Kingsley. Those are my three nonnegotiables. — Tiffany Reisz

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

The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art. — Constantin Stanislavski

So if we look at progress, or evolution, or we look at accomplishment in our life, the key is to be continually moving on, expanding and growing, clarifying, developing and maturing. The opposite would be getting stuck, staying stuck, so there's no maturing, no developing, no accomplishing, no movement. — Dennis Merzel

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great? — Nelson Mandela

Hey, lady, you know what? Here's a newsflash: Hitler's not coming. — Annette Laing

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom. — Nelson Mandela