"It's not our weaknesses that frighten us...." - Quote by Nelson Mandela

“That day, Miss Mdingane told me that my new name was Nelson. Why she bestowed this particular name upon me I have no idea. Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess.”

“Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.”

“We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.”

“When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.”

“Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength.”

“Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.”

“You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.”

“If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!”

“Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.”