Top 10 Quotes by Nelson Mandela: International Nelson Mandela Day is celebrated around the world on 18 July. He spent 27 years in prison in the struggle against apartheid but never gave up on himself. On 10 November 2009, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution of 18 July as “Nelson Mandela International Day”. Mandela was the first President of the South Nelson Mandela, he took charge from 10 May 1994 to 14 June 1999. Nelson Mandela is known as a world leader who fought against apartheid. Nelson Mandela is also called Nelson Mandela Gandhi, he did not get this name in this way, he was influenced by Gandhiji’s ideas.
Today, on the ocassion of Nelson Mandela International Day, here we have mentioned the top 10 Quotes of Nelson Mandela. Read these top quotes by Nelson Mandela to be inspired and you can also share these quotes with your friends, relatives or loved ones to inspire them.
Top 10 “Nelson Mandela” Quotes by the first president of South Africa
1. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.-Nelson Mandela
2. No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
3. 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
4. “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.”
5. Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom. – Nelson Mandela
6. We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender, and other discrimination. – Nelson Mandela
7. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. – Nelson Mandela
8. Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learned how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. – Nelson Mandela
9. If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. – Nelson Mandela
10. 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.
