Nelson Mandela

9 Quotes

Quotes by Nelson Mandela

1

I never lose. Either I win or I learn.

2

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.

3

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. 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.

4

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

5

It always seems impossible until it's done.

6

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

7

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

8

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

9

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.