Nelson Mandela Quotes

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Nelson Mandela

• Time
• Good
• Family
• Friends
• Health

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• My motivation has always been health - eating healthy and taking care of myself.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Health
  • Myself
  • motivation

• Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Friends
  • Difficult
  • Him

• I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.

  

  B. B. King
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Quiet

• I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Good
  • Person
  • Impossible

• I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Good
  • Day
  • Cancer

• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • World
  • Death

• My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Family
  • School
  • Art

• Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Great
  • Love

• My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Good
  • Family
  • Father

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Job
  • Politics

• I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Good
  • Music
  • Soul

• President Mandela was not a hands-on president at any time.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • President
  • Hands-On

• At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• I have some ideas on how to fix that. They're not very good ideas, but at least they're ideas!

  

  Adam Savage
  • Good

• We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Good
  • Great
  • God

• I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.

  

  Tami Hoag
  • Men
  • Belief
  • Brave

• God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

  

  Brett Favre
  • Up
  • God

• As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Writing
  • America
  • Song

• I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Time
  • Good
  • Family