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Nelson Mandela Quotes

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

Biography

Author Profession: Statesman
Nationality: South African
Born: July 18, 1918

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

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

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela

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Words

Absence, Afraid, Brave, Conquers, Courage, Does, Fear, Feel, Learned, Man, Over, Over It, Triumph

Definitions

Absence, Afraid, Brave, Courage, Does, Fear, Feel, Learned, Man, Over, Triumph