Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until its done.

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

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

Where you stand depends on where you sit.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

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

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Anger makes dull men witty – but it keeps them poor.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P’s – pay, perks, power and prestige – rather than making profits for shareholders.

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.