Nelson Mandela on Execution Quotes

"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."

"I never lose. I either win or learn."

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

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

"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."

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

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."

"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

"To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."

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

"I am prepared to die. This was the ideal for which I am prepared to live and to achieve."

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

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

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

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

"Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished."

"Difficulties break some men but make others."

"Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely day dreaming, but vision with action can change the world."

"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."

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up."

"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."

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

"Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all."

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

"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice."

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

"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

"The struggle is my life. I will continue to fight for independence until the end of my days."

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

"It is in your hands, to make a better world for all who live in it."

"The long walk is not finished. No one has the right to sit down and say, I have arrived."

"Tread softly, breathe peacefully, laugh hysterically."

"When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace."