"I've found that South Africa has produced..." - Quote by Nelson Mandela
I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory.
More by Nelson Mandela
“A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest.”
“He knew when to compromise. Yet he never compromised his principles. He was a militant. Yet a militant who knew how to plan, assess concrete situations and emerge with rational solutions to problems.”
“A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.”
More on Leadership
“A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?”
“I think Dona;d Trump is sincere in wanting to be a successful president and moving this country forward and I don't think any president ever comes in saying to himself "I want to figure out how to make people angry or alienate half the country."”
“Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.”
More on Humility
“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”
“I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.”
“I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.”