More quotes by 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."
"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."
"I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope."
"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
"Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."