Inspiring Life of Nelson Mandela

The World is having lot of leaders in various countries. Some may be just Famous, some may be courageous, some may be helping their own people, some may be having good heart, some may be Charismatic, and some may be having intention to help entire world. But it is very very rare to see a leader with all these qualities and lot more good qualities combined together .

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela is one such great Leader in 20th Century. It is very hard to see any other leader like him.
Nelson Mandela was the first black President of South Africa. He spent 27 years in prison for trying to overthrow the pro-apartheid government. After he left prison, he worked to achieve human rights and a better future for everyone in South Africa.
Nelson Mandela was born in 1918. He was in prison from 1962 to 1990. He became President of South Africa in 1994, and retired in 1999.
Nelson Mandela became famous for his long fight against bad government and racial prejudice. He became a hero to people all over the world. As South Africa’s President, he was respected for his courage and wisdom in bringing people together to live in peace.
Key Facts about Nelson Mandela:

• Birth name of Mandela is “Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela”.  “Rolihlahla” in the Xhosa language literally means “pulling the branch of a tree,” but more commonly translates as “troublemaker.”
• He was given the name Nelson by a school teacher.
• When Mandela was 9 years old, his father died of lung disease.
• Mandela served 27 years in prison, first on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison.
• In South Africa, Nelson Mandela  is often referred  by his Xhosa clan name of Madiba or as tata; he is often described as “the father of the nation”.
• Nelson Mandela received over 250 awards, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Soviet Order of Lenin.
• Mandela has been married three times.  Graca (Machel) Mandela (July 18, 1998 – present); “Winnie” (Madikizela) Mandela (1958 – 1996, divorce); Evelyn (Ntoko) Mandela (1944 – 1958, divorce)
• In addition to advocating for peace and equality on both a national and global scale, Mandela has remained committed to the fight against AIDS, a disease that killed his son, Makgatho, in 2005.
• In November 2009, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed Mandela’s birthday, 18 July, as “Mandela Day”, marking his contribution to the anti-apartheid struggle. It called on individuals to donate 67 minutes to doing something for others, commemorating the 67 years that Mandela had been a part of the movement.
• “Long Walk to Freedom” is an autobiographical work written by Nelson Mandela in 1994.
• Nelson Mandela’s Prison number is 46664 . i-e 466th prisoner in the year 1964.  In November 2003 , Mandela hosted an event named as “46664 Concert” at Cape Town to raise awareness of the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

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Nelson Mandela Timeline:
1941-1943 – Mandela meets Walter Sisulu who helps him get a job at the law firm.
1944 – Joins the African National Congress (ANC)and helps found the ANC Youth League.
1951 – Becomes president of the ANC Youth League.
1952 – Opens the first black law partnership in South Africa with friend Oliver Tambo.
1952 – Leads the newly launched [ANC] Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws, a program of nonviolent mass resistance.
July 1952 – Mandela is charged with violating the Suppression of Communism Act.
December 5, 1956 – Mandela is among 156 resistance leaders arrested and charged with high treason.
March 21, 1960 – In Sharpeville, police fire upon protestors challenging apartheid laws; 69 people are killed.
April 8, 1960 – The ANC is banned nine days after Mandela is arrested and the government imposes a state of emergency after the events in Sharpeville.
March 29, 1961 – Mandela and all co-defendants are found not guilty of treason.
June 1961 – Mandela begins organizing the armed struggle against apartheid Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nations). He travels in Africa and Europe studying guerrilla warfare.
August 5, 1962 – Is arrested on charges of inciting workers to strike and leaving the country without valid travel documents. Mandela represents himself at trial.
November 7, 1962 – Is sentenced to prison, five years hard labor.
June 12, 1964 – Is sentenced to life in prison for four counts of sabotage. Convicted and sentenced with Mandela are Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada, Govan Mbeki, Denis Goldberg and others.
1980 – The Johannesburg Sunday Post leads a campaign to free Mandela. A petition demanding his and other ANC prisoners’ release is printed in the newspaper.
1982- Is transferred to Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison after 18 years on Robben Island.
1988 – Is transferred to Victor Verster Prison.
July 5, 1989 – Meets with President P.W. Botha.
August 15, 1989 – Botha resigns as president and head of the National Party. F.W. de Klerk replaces him and begins dismantling apartheid.
December 13, 1989 – Mandela and de Klerk meet for the first time.
February 11, 1990 – Mandela is released from prison after more than 27 years.
1990 – Embarks on a world tour, visiting Margaret Thatcher, the U.S. Congress, and U.S. President George H.W. Bush.
July 1991 – Mandela is elected president of the ANC.
1993 – Mandela and de Klerk share the Nobel Peace Prize.
April 29, 1994 – Elected the first black president of the Republic of South Africa in the first open election in the country’s history.
May 10, 1994 – Mandela is inaugurated.
June 1999 – Mandela leaves office.
1999 – Establishes the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
January 19, 2000 – Addresses the United Nations Security Council, appealing for help in ending the brutal civil war between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi.
July 25, 2001 – Announces that he has prostate cancer and is undergoing treatment.
January 31, 2003 – Mandela criticizes President Bush’s stance on Iraq, saying he has no foresight and can’t think properly.
November 29, 2003 – Aids awareness event, the 46664 Concert (Mandela’s prison number) at Green Point stadium in Cape Town. The event draws 30,000+ fans with performances by Beyonce, Peter Gabriel, Bono, Bob Geldof and many more; and speeches by Mandela and Geldof.
December 1, 2003 – Mandela participates in the signing of the Geneva Accords for peace in the Middle East.
January 7, 2005 – Announces that his son, Makgatho, has died of AIDS and that the disease should be given publicity so that people will stop viewing it as extraordinary.
March 21, 2005 – Hosts the “46664 concert” in George, South Africa, to promote AIDS awareness.
August 29, 2007 – A bronze statue of Mandela is unveiled in Parliament Square in London.
June 27, 2008 – A London concert is held at Hyde Park in honor of Mandela’s 90th birthday (on July 18) with all proceeds going to an AIDS charity. It is estimated that about 40,000 tickets were sold.
July 18, 2009 – The Nelson Mandela Foundation creates Mandela Day to be held every year on his birthday. The purpose of the day is to bring awareness to community service.
November 11, 2009 – The United Nations declares July 18th Nelson Mandela International Day.
December 11, 2009 – The movie Invictus, starring Morgan Freeman as Mandela opens in South Africa, Canada and the United States.
February 11, 2010 – On the 20th anniversary of Mandela’s release from prison tributes, commemorations and marches in his honor take place.
June 11, 2010 – Mandela makes his first World Cup appearance before kickoff of the final match.
January 26-28, 2011 – Is hospitalized in Johannesburg and treated for an acute respiratory infection.
June 21, 2011 – Meets with U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama at his home in South Africa.
February 25-26, 2012 – Enters and is released from a Johannesburg hospital, while there undergoes surgery for an abdominal hernia.
March 2012 – The Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project is launched. Google gives a $1.25 million grant to help preserve and digitize thousands of archival documents including items donated by Mandela himself.
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a South African politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
In 1961 he abandoned peaceful protest and became head of the ANC’s new military wing. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964, Mandela came to symbolize black political aspirations and was named head of the ANC after his release on Feb. 11, 1990. He and F. W. de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating South Africa’s peaceful transition to multiracial democracy.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela

It always seems impossible until its done.
Nelson Mandela

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
Nelson Mandela

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

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

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.
Nelson Mandela

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Nelson Mandela

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.
Nelson Mandela

Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
Nelson Mandela

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate,and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. – Harold Geneen

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. - W. Clement Stone

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. – Zig Ziglar

You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity. From that love will come the dedication that will get you out of bed at 4 a.m. because of a great idea you just had and get you to work till 11 p.m. and not feel tired. – Ken Field

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. – Thomas Watson, Sr.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
– Albert Schweitzer

Success is dependent upon the glands – sweat glands. -Zig Ziglar

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. – Winston Churchill

The best way to predict the future is to create it.
- Peter Drucker

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been. – Robert H. Schuller

Winners never quit and quitters never win. - Vince Lombardi

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
- Warren Buffett

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader

There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley

Choose a job that you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. – Abraham Lincoln

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
– Vince Lombardi

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree I would spend six hours sharpening my axe. – Abraham Lincoln

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. – John F. Kennedy

Business is more exciting than any game. – Lord Beaverbrook

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”
– John C. Maxwell

Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.
– Stephen R. Covey

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare. – Chinese Proverb

The golden rule for every business man is this: “Put yourself in your customer’s place”. – Orison Swett Marden

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. - Don Marquis

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
- Jane Fonda

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. – Peter Drucker

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. – Norman Schwarzkopf

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it. – Debbi Fields

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do. – Dennis Waitley

Business is in itself a power. – Garet Garrett

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. – Arnold H. Glasow

A man should never neglect his family for business. – Walt Disney

The only limits are, as always, those of vision. – James Broughton

If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place. – Nora Roberts

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates

You can’t operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. – Steve Ross

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
- Paul Tournier

I don’t pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages. – Robert Bosch

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.- Alvin Toffler

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. – Oprah Winfrey

If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow. – Isaac Mophatlane

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him. – William Hazlitt

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours. – Ray Kroc

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing. – Magic Johnson

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. – Peter F. Drucker

Business is a combination of war and sport. – Andre Maurois

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas of enthusiasm. – Thomas J. Watson

Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day. – Francis Gray

Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools.. but they must be kept to a minimum. – Jeffrey Immelt

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. – Napoleon Hill

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. – Charles Darwin.

The only way around is through. – Robert Frost

If you owe the bank $100 that’s your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that’s the bank’s problem. – J. Paul Getty

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. – Walt Disney

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong. – Warren Buffett

You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins. – Jim Stovall

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. – Isaac Asimov

People are definitely a company’s greatest asset. It doesn’t make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps. – Mary Kay Ash

In business, I’ve discovered that my purpose is to do my best to my utmost ability every day. That’s my standard. I learned early in my life that I had high standards. – Donald Trump

The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers. – John Egan

Let’s be honest. There’s not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings. – Bob Parsons

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to neither make money nor find much fun in life. – Charles M. Schwab

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. – Theodore Roosevelt

To win without risk is to triumph without glory. – Pierre Corneille

Management is nothing more than motivating other people. – Le Iacocca

To succeed… You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. – Tony Dorsett

Whether it’s Google or Apple or free software, we’ve got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes. – Bill Gates

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- Thomas A. Edison

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
-Napoleon Hill

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. – Norman Vincent Peale

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. – Zig Ziglar

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.- Sam Walton

A goal properly set is halfway reached. – Zig Ziglar

Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet. – Robert H. Schuller

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. – Theodore Roosevelt

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. – Zig Ziglar

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Only the best failures ever succeed

Never, never, never give up.
– Winston Churchill