Nelson Mandela

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

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

Nothing is black or white.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

The greatest glory in living lies in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.

I will work day after day like I did my whole life … I’m not going to change anything.

It’s always good to be underestimated.

If you want to be rich… don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

If you learn from defeat, you haven’t really lost.

True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her.

I would say to do you and do you well. Don’t try to be anyone else. Don’t try to emulate what someone is doing. Play to your strengths. Even if you see someone onstage that is killing it, don’t try to do what they’re doing. Just keep doing you.

Seek not outside yourself for success lies within.

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

To give away money is an easy matter, and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power, nor an easy matter. Hence it is that such excellence is rare, praiseworthy, and noble.

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don’t misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

That one by one by one we can defuse this nuclear bomb of hate that we’re in as a society by thinking of everyone as our family.

You must go forth into the world, with passion, courage in your conviction, and most importantly be true to yourself. I did it!