Nelson Mandela

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

Nothing is black or white.

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

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

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

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.

Well, when it comes to social media – there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down. You can’t be reading all that stuff. I mean, that’s like letting somebody just walk up and slap you, you know? You would never do that. You would never just sit there and go, slap me in the face and I’m good with it. No. So why would you open yourself up to that?

Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations.

Who prays for Satan? Who, in 1,800 years, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.

Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.