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"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
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"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
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Nelson Mandela
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"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying." - Nelson Mandela
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"Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again." - Nelson Mandela
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"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw." - Nelson Mandela
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"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela
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"As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility." - Nelson Mandela
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"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." - Nelson Mandela
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"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special." - Nelson Mandela
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"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." - Nelson Mandela
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"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb." - Nelson Mandela
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"Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom." - Nelson Mandela
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"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." - Nelson Mandela
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"One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others." - Nelson Mandela
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"Appearances matter, and remember to smile." - Nelson Mandela
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"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." - Nelson Mandela
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"A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind." - Nelson Mandela
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"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up." - Nelson Mandela
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"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
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"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
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"Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice all for the freedom of their people." - Nelson Mandela
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"A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of." - Nelson Mandela
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"Courage is not the absence of fear - it s inspiring others to move beyond it." - Nelson Mandela
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"Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening." - Nelson Mandela
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"You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution." - Nelson Mandela
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"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." - Nelson Mandela
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"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others., Long Walk to Freedom" - Nelson Mandela
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"It is not where you start, but how high you aim that matters for success." - Nelson Mandela
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"I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope." - Nelson Mandela
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"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." - Nelson Mandela
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"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation." - Nelson Mandela
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"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
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"Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?" - Nelson Mandela
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"I am the master of my fate and the captain of my destiny." - Nelson Mandela
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"It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another." - Nelson Mandela
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"Tread softly, Brathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically." - Nelson Mandela
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"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished." - Nelson Mandela