3 Nelson Mandela Quotes on Courage

Nelson Mandela quotes on courage

4. I remember we adjourned for lunch and a friendly Afrikaner warder asked me the question, 'Mandela, what do you think is going to happen to you in this case?' I said to him, 'Agh, they are going to hang us.' Now, I was really expecting some word of encouragement from him. And I thought he was going to say, 'Agh man, that can never happen.' But he became serious and then he said, 'I think you are right, they are going to hang you.'

22. Far from the rough and tumble of the politics of our own country. I would like to take this opportunity to join the Norwegian Nobel Committee and pay tribute to my joint laureate. Mr. F.W. de Klerk. He had the courage to admit that a terrible wrong had been done to our country and people through the imposition of the system of apartheid. He had the foresight to understand and accept that all the people of South Africa must through negotiations and as equal participants in the process, together determine what they want to make of their future.

52. 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.