Nelson Mandela Quotes

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.

If you evolve within you, there will be no pride, no prejudice. You will perform action out of pure, absolute sense.

The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. And however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. Therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. No study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

If anyone steps on your ego, instantly, he becomes your enemy. But a Guru is a friend who constantly tramples your ego.

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

... learning humility is a prerequisite for grace.

. . . meekness,love, purity, these are the things that should magnify us.

The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I can live to be decrepit enough, I shall be a saint.

Humility is truth.

Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding.' Now I realize the more I learn, the less I know about acting... and life.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

It's wrong for a guy to have no personality, no heart. Because I don't care about style or money.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.

I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

Stay humble, always.

Purity of the spirit is important. A lot of people don't focus on what's going on inside, and no matter what they look like, even sometimes when people do all this wonderful work or they are blessed naturally to look good on the outside, if their spirit is ugly - I don't care how fine you are, if you're ugly on the inside, then you're uglier.