Nelson Mandela Quotes About Humility

Quotes about: Humility

• As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

  Nelson Mandela

  Motivational, Confidence, Honesty

• In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Life, Family

  "Nelson Mandela's personal letters reveal guilt, anguish and marital spats". www.news.com.au. December 6, 2013.

• I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humble, Humility, People

  Rally Address Following Release From Pollsmoor Prison, delivered 11 February 1990, Cape Town, South Africa

• There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humble, Humility, Simple

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

• People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety. You learn to look into yourself.

  Nelson Mandela

  Honesty, Humility, Jail

  "South Africa looks to legacy of Nelson Mandela, its great reconciler and first black president", www.foxnews.com. December 31, 2012.

• Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility.

  Nelson Mandela

  Honesty, Integrity, Humility

• Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Spiritual, Honesty, Humility

• There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light.

  Nelson Mandela

  Humility, Light, Ability

  Source: www.mott.org

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