More Quotes by Nelson Mandela
Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Great anger and violence can never build a nation.
There is nothing more dangerous than a humiliated man.
It only seems impossible until it's done.
Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods.
Fools multiply when wise men are silent.
The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.
Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.
