Best Nelson Mandela Quotes to Inspire you

Education is the great engine of personal development.

Life has a way of forcing decisions on those who vacillate.

Violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.

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.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

It always seems impossible until its done.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor

Men have different capacities and react differently to stress. But the stronger ones raised up the weaker ones, and both became stronger in the process.

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgement, not till he’s shown his colors, run the people, making laws. Experience, there’s the test.

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.

Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A minority was not to be crushed by a majority.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

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