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"There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous."
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"Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets."
"When you live for the purpose of making a difference for the people, for society, for the things that are beyond you, then significance will not be able to elude you."
"Give all your gifts away in service to the world. If you want to paint, don't wait for a grant, paint a wall in your town that looks drab and uninviting. You never know who is going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community."
"The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody."
"You need to discover something that will impact humanity."
"If a person does not fulfill his calling he will lose purpose in life."
"Every gift, talent and every calling that you have from God has been given to you because somebody needs it."
"When every opportunity given to you is used to serve the people, you are on the path of life's purpose to the fullness."
"Life is only worth living if it is used to produce products for the good of humanity."
"Those who build are greater than those who tear down."
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"The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle."
"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."
"Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country."
"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."
"Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"
"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
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