Quote #56

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

More from Nelson Mandela

  1. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
  2. You may succeed in delaying, but never in preventing the transition of South Africa to a democracy.
  3. No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but it…
  4. Any man that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
  5. In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
  6. The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.
  7. 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 c…
  8. The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

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