It always seems impossible until it's done.

- Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

- Nelson Mandela

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Nelson Mandela

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

I never lose. I either win or learn.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Nelson Mandela

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

- Nelson Mandela

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

- Nelson Mandela

Courage is not the absence of fear — it is inspiring others to move beyond it.

- Nelson Mandela

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

The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

- Nelson Mandela

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

- 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

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice.

- Nelson Mandela

Let your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

- Nelson Mandela

When people are determined they can overcome anything.

- Nelson Mandela

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.

- 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 nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Nelson Mandela

I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

- Nelson Mandela

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

- Nelson Mandela