Quotes for English Learners
Quotes by
Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela :
Bad leaders In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
Nelson Mandela |
leadership
Becoming president In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
Nelson Mandela |
leadership
Developing a country No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Nelson Mandela |
education
Does anybody really think so? Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela |
strength
Forgiving Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela |
war and peace
Formidable combination A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela |
education
Globalization 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.
Nelson Mandela |
freedom
Good leaders A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela |
leadership
How leadership is appreciated It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela |
leadership
Impossible It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela |
motivational
Intervention Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.
Nelson Mandela |
war and peace
It goes to his heart 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.
Nelson Mandela |
language
Making peace If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela |
war and peace
Missing life Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
Nelson Mandela |
life
Mistake Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
Nelson Mandela |
politics
Nonviolence Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
Nelson Mandela |
war and peace
Not a messiah I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.
Nelson Mandela |
leadership
Not a prophet I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.
Nelson Mandela |
leadership
Only free men Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
Nelson Mandela |
freedom
Part freedom There is no such thing as part freedom.
Nelson Mandela |
freedom
Success Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela |
money
The most powerful weapon Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela |
education
To be free 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.
Nelson Mandela |
freedom
Treatment of children There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela |
children
Walk to 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.
Nelson Mandela |
freedom
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