We owe our children β the most vulnerable citizens in any society β a life free from violence and fear.
Nelson MandelaRead
We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.
Interpretation
Success requires collaboration and teamwork rather than individual effort.
Nelson Mandela's quote emphasizes the importance of unity and collaboration in achieving success. It suggests that individual efforts, while valuable, are often insufficient to reach meaningful goals and that working together as a collective is essential for true achievement.
In practice
This quote can be used in a team-building workshop to emphasize the importance of collaboration.
We owe our children β the most vulnerable citizens in any society β a life free from violence and fear.
What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.
The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.
We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one's person.
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
The girls and women of our race must not be afraid to take hold of business endeavor and, by patient industry, close economy, determined effort and close application to business, wring success out of a number of business opportunities that lie at their very doors.
On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
Beware of being blinded by your own success.
In all things, you need a good organization. You can have the best player in the world; if you do not have the best team, you will not win.
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortune in ten years, but you're not going to be read in twenty years, and that's that.
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