Nelson Mandela

Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate.

Nelson Mandela

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

Nelson Mandela

I am not the only one who did not want revenge. Almost all my colleagues in prison did not want revenge, because there is no time to do anything else except to try and save your people.

Nelson Mandela

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else’s freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken away from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

Nelson Mandela

I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

Nelson Mandela

I have always regarded friendship as something very precious. But there are moments in a person’s life when it is of singular significance, when it makes you the master of your fate.

Nelson Mandela

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

Nelson Mandela

I have retired, but if there’s anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

Nelson Mandela

I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

Nelson Mandela

I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it’s there. It’s mapped out for me.

Nelson Mandela