Nelson Mandela on Decision Making Quotes

"I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles."

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."

"Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming."

"Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace."

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy."

"A leader... is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead."

"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."

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

"For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

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

"To lead from the front, you must first understand the needs of those behind you."

"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony."

"Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts."

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

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

"I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope."

"I could not leave my people and my country. It would be a betrayal."

"Difficulties break some men but make others."

"I have never cared very much for personal prizes."

"Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development."

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."

"You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with."

"It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."

"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them."

"I had no epiphany, no singular revelation... but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights."

"Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front."

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

"The first thing is to be honest with yourself."

"One of the things I learnt when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others."

"Quitting is leading too."

"Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people."

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