Nelson Mandela

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

Appearances matter – and remember to smile.

It always seems impossible until it is done.

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

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

Those who would mend the world must first mend themselves.

He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Tear thyself from delay.

A verse from the Veda says, ‘What you see, you become.’ In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

What I mean is you make the world less ugly just by living in it.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.