Nelson Mandela : (6)

" Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. " - Nelson Mandela

" Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit. " - Nelson Mandela

" There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. " - 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

" Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will. " - Nelson Mandela

" It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea. " - Nelson Mandela