Inspirational Quotes By Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela
Born July 18, 1918
South African Statesman

About Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born 18 July 1918) was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully representative democratic elections, serving from 1994–1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist and leader of the African National Congress and its armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe. He was convicted for crimes that occurred while he was spearheading the struggle against apartheid. He spent 27 years in prison for this, with many of those years being spent on Robben Island.

In South Africa and internationally, Mandela became a symbol of freedom and equality for his opposition to apartheid, while the apartheid government and nations sympathetic to it condemned him and the ANC as communists and terrorists.

Following his release from prison on 11 February 1990, his support for reconciliation and negotiation helped lead the transition to multi-racial democracy in South Africa. Since the end of apartheid, he has been widely praised, even by former opponents.

Mandela has received more than one hundred awards over four decades, most notably the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. He is currently a celebrated elder statesman who continues to voice his opinion on topical issues. In South Africa he is often known as Madiba, an honorary title adopted by elders of Mandela's clan. The title has come to be synonymous with Nelson Mandela.



Wisdom of the famous Nelson Mandela in the form of inspirational quotes. We hope you enjoy these famous inspirational quotes.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
~Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
~Nelson Mandela

I always remember the axiom: a leader...is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.
~Nelson Mandela

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
~Nelson Mandela

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
~Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
~Nelson Mandela

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.
~Nelson Mandela

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
~Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
~Nelson Mandela

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
~Nelson Mandela

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
~Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until its done.
~Nelson Mandela

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.
~Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as part freedom.
~Nelson Mandela

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~Nelson Mandela

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
~Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
~Nelson Mandela

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

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
~Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
~Nelson Mandela

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself.
~Nelson Mandela

Inspiration Quotes By Vince Lombardi

Vince Lombardi
1913 - 1970
American Coach

Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football coach. He was the head coach of the Green Bay Packers of the NFL from 1959-67, winning five league championships during his 9 years. Following a one-year retirement from coaching in 1968, he returned as head coach of the Washington Redskins for the 1969 season. Lombardi's record in the post-season was 9-1, the loss coming in the first of those games, the 1960 NFL championship.

Vince Lombardi Speech


Be inspired by these famous inspirational quotes by Vince Lombardi. Many of Mr. Lombardi's quotes can apply to all aspects of life. We hope you enjoy this collection of inspirational quotes.

It's not whether you get knocked down,
it's whether you get up.
~Vince Lombardi

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
~Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
~Vince Lombardi

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
~Vince Lombardi

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
~Vince Lombardi

If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
~Vince Lombardi

Having the capacity to lead is not enough.
The leader must be willing to use it.
~Vince Lombardi

It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer,
the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges
and does something about it.
~Vince Lombardi

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
~Vince Lombardi

Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.
~Vince Lombardi

Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.
~Vince Lombardi

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
~Vince Lombardi

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
~Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win and the will to excel-these are the things that endure and these are the qualities that are so much more important than any of the events that occasion them.
~Vince Lombardi

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
~Vince Lombardi

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
~Vince Lombardi

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
~Vince Lombardi

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
~Vince Lombardi

Success demands singleness of purpose.
~Vince Lombardi

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
~Vince Lombardi

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
~Vince Lombardi

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
~Vince Lombardi

Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
~Vince Lombardi

Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
~Vince Lombardi

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
~Vince Lombardi

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
~Vince Lombardi

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
~Vince Lombardi

Inspiration Quotes by Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King
1929-1968
US Civil Rights Leader,Clergyman

About Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.

A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–6) and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first president. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.

In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the Vietnam War, both from a religious perspective.

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986.



Be inspired by these famous inspirational quotes by Martin Luther King. A man who gave inspiration and hope to millions of people. A man whose actions helped change the world.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service relationship to humanity.
~Martin Luther King

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
~Martin Luther King

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
~Martin Luther King

Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.
~Martin Luther King

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
~Martin Luther King

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed - we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
~Martin Luther King

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
~Martin Luther King

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
~Martin Luther King

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
~Martin Luther King

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
~Martin Luther King

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.
~Martin Luther King

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
~Martin Luther King

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.
~Martin Luther King

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
~Martin Luther King

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
~Martin Luther King

A lie cannot live.
~Martin Luther King

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
~Martin Luther King

I've decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
~Martin Luther King.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
~Martin Luther King

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?
~Martin Luther King

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
~Martin Luther King

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
~Martin Luther King

The time is always right to do what is right.
~Martin Luther King

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
~Martin Luther King

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
~Martin Luther King

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
~Martin Luther King

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
~Martin Luther King

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
M~artin Luther King

I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.
~Martin Luther King

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
~Martin Luther King

All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.
~Martin Luther King

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
~Martin Luther King

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
~Martin Luther King

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
~Martin Luther King

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.
~Martin Luther King

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
~Martin Luther King

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
~Martin Luther King

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
~Martin Luther King

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
~Martin Luther King

Inspiration Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi
1869 - 1948
Leader of India

About Mahatma Ghandi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of Satyagraha, resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore and in India also as Bapu or "Father". He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence.

Gandhi first employed non-violent civil disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers in protesting excessive land-tax and discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, for expanding women's rights, for building religious and ethnic amity, for ending untouchability, for increasing economic self-reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj—the independence of India from foreign domination. Gandhi famously led Indians in protesting the British-imposed salt tax with the 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930, and later in calling for the British to Quit India in 1942. He was imprisoned for many years, on numerous occasions, in both South Africa and India.

Gandhi was a practitioner of non-violence and truth, and advocated that others do the same. He lived modestly in a self-sufficient residential community and wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a charkha. He ate simple vegetarian food, and also undertook long fasts as means of both self-purification and social protest.



A collection of famous quotes by Gandhi filled with inspiration and wisdom for you to reflect on. Gandhi was an inspiration to many around the world.

Where there is love there is life.
~Gandhi, Best

A "No" uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
~Gandhi

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
~Gandhi

Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
~Gandhi

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
~Gandhi

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
~Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~Gandhi

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
~Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
~Gandhi

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
~Gandhi

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
~Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
~Gandhi

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
~Gandhi

The pleasure lies in making the effort, not in its fulfillment.
~Gandhi

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.
~Gandhi

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
~Gandhi

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.
~Gandhi

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
~Gandhi

It is health which is real wealth, not pieces of silver and gold.
~Gandhi

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
~Gandhi

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
~Gandhi

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
~Gandhi

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
~Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Gandhi

Be the change that you want to see in the world.
~Gandhi

Action expresses priorities.
~Gandhi

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
~Gandhi

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
~Gandhi

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
~Gandhi

Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says "Do this".
~Gandhi

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
~Gandhi

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
~Gandhi

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
~Gandhi

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.
~Gandhi

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
~Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
~Gandhi

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
~Gandhi

There is a beauty and an art in simplicity which he who runs may see.
~Gandhi

What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?
~Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
~Gandhi

Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it.
~Gandhi