Nelson Mandela Quotes About Leadership

Quotes about: Leadership

• A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Real, Issues

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Dec 05, 2013

• Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Leadership, Believe

• Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Success, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 01, 2013

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Life

• If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

  Nelson Mandela

  Friendship, Inspiring, Leadership

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

• 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

  Leadership, Travel, Crazy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Differences, Generosity

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• 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

  Inspirational, Leadership, Appreciation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Ideas, Knowing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

• There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Moving, People

• You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Leadership, Forgiveness

• One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Change, Inspiring, Leadership

• Appearances matter — and remember to smile.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Inspiration, Lgbt

• It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Leadership, Wise

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Mistake, Politics

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Mistake, Done

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. April 2001.

• Be a life long student, read as many books as possible.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Book, Long

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