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It is better to lead from behind
and to put others in front,
especially when you celebrate victory
when nice things occur.
You take the front line when there is danger.
Then people will appreciate your leadership.
- Nelson Mandela
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If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
We must use time wisely and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela
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As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela
It always seems impossible until its done.
- 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
After climbing a great hill,
one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
- Nelson Mandela
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
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.
- Nelson Mandela
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid,
but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela
When the water starts boiling
it is foolish to turn off the heat.
- Nelson Mandela
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul
than the way in which it treats its children.
- 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 easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
Let freedom reign. The sun never set
on so glorious a human achievement.
- 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
There is no such thing as part freedom.
- Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
- Nelson Mandela
I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.
- Nelson Mandela
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections,
they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia.
But when we have elections, they want observers.
- Nelson Mandela
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa,
there are also roads that lead to their goal.
Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
- Nelson Mandela
Never, never and never again shall it be
that this beautiful land will again experience
the oppression of one by another.
- Nelson Mandela
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing,
whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
- Nelson Mandela
Only free men can negotiate;
prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
- Nelson Mandela
Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
- Nelson Mandela
In my country we go to prison first, and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
Money won't create success,
the freedom to make it will.
- Nelson Mandela
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa,
whereby its leaders combine in their efforts
to solve the problems of this continent.
I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests,
of all our great wildernesses.
- Nelson Mandela
Communists have always played an active role
in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom,
because the short-term objects of Communism
would always correspond with
the long-term objects of freedom movements.
- Nelson Mandela
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt
To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children,
to leave the world a better place,
to know even one life has breathed easier
because you have lived,
this is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger? perhaps there is a better way.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
To leave the world a bit better ...
to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- The Buddha
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
A "No" uttered from deepest conviction
is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please,
or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
If a man can... make a better mousetrap,
the world will make a beaten path to his door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Better than a thousand hollow words,
is one word that brings peace.
- The Buddha
Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve
some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
- Aristophanes
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Build a better mousetrap
and the world will beat a path to your door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we could first know where we are,
and whither we are tending,
we could then better judge what to do,
and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Never mind what others do;
do better than yourself,
beat your own record from day to day,
and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority
has made the world better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
Poverty with security is better than plenty
in the midst of fear and uncertainty.
- Aesop
Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Successful people ask better questions,
and as a result, they get better answers.
- Tony Robbins
Genius is the power to labor better and more availably.
Deserve thy genius: exalt it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In better conditions.
- Hafiz
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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