Nelson Mandela
Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind.Collection: Inspiring
Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.Collection: Differences
When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.Collection: Choices
I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.Collection: Positive
To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them.Collection: People
You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that.Collection: Ideas
A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness.Collection: Men
Appearances matter — and remember to smile.Collection: Leadership
The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?Collection: Dream
If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they can never like you. And you can never build that instrument of collective leadership.Collection: Views
An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progressCollection: Real
We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses.Collection: Complaining
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.Collection: Wisdom
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.Collection: Inspirational
Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.Collection: Children
Education is the great engine to personal development.Collection: Achievement
Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.Collection: Sweet
Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.Collection: Dog
It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.Collection: Children
Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear.Collection: Children
I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done his duty.Collection: Sleep
Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguishedCollection: Courage
There is nothing more important in life than giving. Tolerance is forged when people look beyond their own desiresCollection: Love
Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.Collection: Art
Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.Collection: Foundation
You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.Collection: Inspiring
Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.Collection: Sports
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?Collection: Generations
No single person can liberate a country. You can only liberate a country if you act as a collective.Collection: Inspiring
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.Collection: Believe
The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.Collection: Men
Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.Collection: Perseverance
In prison, illusions can offer comfort.Collection: Comfort
I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.Collection: Fate
Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.Collection: Solitude
Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.Collection: Voice
I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle.Collection: Country
The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives.Collection: School
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.Collection: Poverty
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.Collection: Sports
We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.Collection: Opportunity
The suffering inflicted, and more often than not on the most vulnerable sectors of society, demeans all of us as humanity. That it is invariably women, children, the aged and disabled who suffer in these conflicts stands to the added shame of humankind.Collection: Children
Sport can create hope, where once there was only despairCollection: Sports
We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death.Collection: Voice
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.Collection: Friendship
Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children.Collection: Children
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.Collection: Inspiring
I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.Collection: Leadership
It is necessary to heal the wounds of the past If you are going to build your country and to have unity. I am working with people who fought me very bitterly before the elections. It was my responsibility as the man who is leading the majority party, my responsibility to heal the wounds of the past and to work with people who were my opponents.Collection: Country