Nelson Mandela Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Nelson Mandela
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until its done.
- Nelson Mandela
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When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
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There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains,
but to live in a way that respects
and enhances the freedom of others.
- Nelson Mandela
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- Nelson Mandela
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged
to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Seems Sayings
As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck
You CAN do what you are committed to do -
regardless of how difficult it seems.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,
even if your whole world seems upset.
- Saint Francis de Sales
Expressing gratitude seems like a cosmic invitation
for all kinds of thankfulness and appreciation to pour in.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Ah, not everything is as seems...
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Success seems to be largely a matter
of hanging on after others have let go.
- William Feather
A perfection of means,
and confusion of aims,
seems to be our main problem.
- Albert Einstein
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
Is the babe young? When I behold it,
it seems more venerable than the oldest man.
- Henry David Thoreau
If everything seems to be going well,
you have obviously overlooked something.
- Anonymous
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves
come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
Success seems to be connected with action.
Successful people keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
- Conrad Hilton
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks,
that we concentrate only
on what is most significant and important.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Long Sayings
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Swedish Proverb
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
Brief is life but love is long.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
One movement toward light becomes a clear signpost on a long road.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
- John Leonard
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Stop wishing and fearing the future
long enough to be fully present in TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Three things cannot be long hidden:
the sun, the moon, and the truth.
- The Buddha
So long as you have courage and a sense of humor,
it is never too late to start life afresh.
- Freeman Dyson
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
As long as one keeps searching, the answers come.
- Joan Baez
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Millions long for immortality
who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- Susan Ertz
So long as the memory of certain
beloved friends lives in my heart,
I shall say that life is good.
- Helen Keller
Today is the right day to do
what you have long wanted to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Avoiding danger is no safer
in the long run than outright exposure.
he fearful are caught as often as the bold.
- Helen Keller
I don't care what anybody says about me
as long as it isn't true.
- Truman Capote
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
- Jacqueline Schiff
In order to discover new lands,
one must be willing to lose sight
of the shore for a very long time.
- Anonymous
It takes discipline and compassion
to awaken the divine in ourselves long enough
to recognize the divine in another.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are risks and costs to action.
But they are far less than the long range
risks of comfortable inaction.
- John F. Kennedy
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,
but that we wait so long to begin it.
- Anonymous
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
How you think when you lose
determines how long it will be until you win.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
One does not discover new lands without consenting
to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
She has long ago taken her resolution.
- Henry David Thoreau
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us
and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
- William J. Clinton
Nobody, as long as he moves about
among the chaotic currents of life,
is without trouble.
- Carl Jung
Not Sayings
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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