Nelson Mandela Quotes

This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.

In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one's success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualites which are within reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.