Nelson Mandela Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of
  building better lives.

  Nelson Mandela

  Life, Education, Children

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

• An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

  Nelson Mandela

  Real, Discipline, Progress

• 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.

• As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure.

  Nelson Mandela

  Meaningful, Thinking, Long

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

• People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, People, Progress

  "Who Is Nelson Mandela? A Reader’s Digest Exclusive Interview". Interview with Caitlin O'Connell, www.rd.com. 2005.

• As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.

  Nelson Mandela

  Years, Advice, Progress

• Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

  Nelson Mandela

  Country, Men, Good Man

  Source: www.mott.org

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