Nelson Mandela on Execution Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Tread softly, breathe peacefully, laugh hysterically."