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644 South African Quotes
644 South African Quotes
You are not in business to maximize profit; you are in business to maximize your mission.
Raymond Ackerman
Business
Maximize profit
Your mission
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One thing I’ve learned is to listen to young people. Experience is important, but sometimes young people see more clearly.
Raymond Ackerman
Young people
Experience
Important
See
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It’s not easy retiring when you’ve built a business from scratch.
Raymond Ackerman
Not easy
Retiring
Built
Business
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Promotion, marketing, and social responsibility are key. People are fundamental.
Raymond Ackerman
Promotion
Marketing
Social responsibility
Key
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I’m passionate about what I do. I want to build a company that will last forever.
Raymond Ackerman
Passionate
I do
Build
Company
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You must give back to the community. The more you give, the more you will succeed.
Raymond Ackerman
Give back
Community
The more
Will succeed
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Raymond Ackerman
Create jobs
Government
Entrepreneur
Invest capital
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I’m not saying I’m different. I’m not saying I’m clever, I’ve just worked my whole life to rebuild myself after I was fired.
Raymond Ackerman
Different
Clever
Worked
Life
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Find something you are passionate about, and make it your life’s work.
Raymond Ackerman
Find something
Passionate about
Life's work
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The best way to receive is to give. One can be tough minded, but not hard-hearted. I believe in trying to help everyone but it is also good for my company to fight for people.
Raymond Ackerman
Best way
Receive
Give
Tough minded
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If you can look yourself in the mirror and if you are close with your family, then that is the most fundamental measure of success.
Raymond Ackerman
Look yourself
Mirror
Close
Your family
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The hardest thing to open is a closed mind.
Ahmed Kathrada
Hardest thing
Open
Closed mind
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Ahmed Kathrada
Hatred
Revenge
Bitterness
Negative emotions
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Mandela was a complex character,both the aristocrat, and royalty, and the peasant; the intellectual and the ordinary person; he was a combination of so many different characteristics, you cannot just put him into one box and say ‘this is him’.
Ahmed Kathrada
Mandela
Complex
Aristocrat
Royalty
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We don’t hold it against people who broke down under torture. I don’t know what I would have done under torture. I can never say. As brave as I can talk today, I can’t guarantee it.
Ahmed Kathrada
Torture
Broke down
Never say
Brave
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Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one’s level of security within the universe.
Mamphela Ramphele
Attitudes
Creatures
Conditioned
One's level
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South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people’s opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.
Mamphela Ramphele
Poverty problem
Result
Corruption
Taxes
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The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive – she is the ultimate outsider.
Mamphela Ramphele
Double jeopardy
Being black
Female
Racist
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I’m doing what I’m doing because I believe in human dignity, equality and freedom. I cannot be free if my fellow human beings are not free.
Mamphela Ramphele
I believe
Human dignity
Equality
Freedom
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You must model what you preach if you’re to be credible.
Mamphela Ramphele
Must model
You preach
Be credible
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Mamphela Ramphele
The best
Must always
Better
Feel good
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What distinguishes human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom is the sense of being connected to others.
Mamphela Ramphele
What distinguished
Human being
Rest
Animal kingdom
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Overcoming authoritarianism starts with recognizing it. The attitude that those in authority are to be respected to the point of not daring to question their behavior, even when it involves wrong-doing, needs to be changed.
Mamphela Ramphele
Overcoming authoritarianism
Recognizing it
The attitude
Authority
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Because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie
Alan Paton
Life slips
The rest
My journey
A star
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
Alan Paton
The truth
Our civilization
Christian
Tragic
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I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.
Alan Paton
Great fear
My heart
One day
Loving
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It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it
Alan Paton
Not permissible
Destroying
Family life
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Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Alan Paton
Beloved country
Unborn child
Inheritor
Our fear
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I have never thought that a Christian would be free of suffering.For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
Alan Paton
Never thought
Christian
Free
Suffering
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Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.
Alan Paton
Sorrow
Better
Than fear
Journey
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We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
Alan Paton
Work
For men
The land
The people
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
Alan Paton
Sorrow
Fear
Impoverishes always
May enrich
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
Alan Paton
Life
Taught me
Expect nothing
Success
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
Alan Paton
The ground
Holy
Came from
The Creator
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Alan Paton
Money
Mad
For food
Clothes
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
Alan Paton
Weak
Sinful man
God
His hands
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
Alan Paton
Forgive us
Have trespasses
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But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
Alan Paton
Our emancipation
The fear
Bondage
Secret
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We must be unapologetic in our fight for non-racialism and the rule of law in our country.
Herman Mashaba
Be unapologetic
Our fight
Non racialism
Law
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Union leaderships, like their counterparts called Communists, they work exclusively for their self interests. The interest of their members is not anywhere near their agenda.
Herman Mashaba
Union leadership
Their counterparts
Called communists
Self interest
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South Africans will not be able to carry the burden of the World. We are currently spectacularly failing our own citizens.
Herman Mashaba
Be able
Carry
The burden
The world
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We will do everything to fight for justice.
Herman Mashaba
Do everything
To fight
For justice
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Foreigners who acquired citizenship illegally should be deported, regardless of their origin.
Herman Mashaba
Foreigners
Acquired citizenship
Illegally
Be deported
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Our Constitution ensures that all legal citizens are equally entitled to the same rights, privileges and benefits.
Herman Mashaba
Our constitution
Legal citizens
Equally entitled
Same right
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No country in the world functions with an open borders policy.
Herman Mashaba
No country
The world
Functions with
Open borders
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We want to be a party for the people, by the people, and funded from the people!
Herman Mashaba
We want
A party
The people
Funded from
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Politics of the stomach must not be the norm. The norm must be ACTION for the people of South Africa.
Herman Mashaba
Politics
Stomach
The norm
Be action
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South Africa cannot host and accept criminality. Allowing criminality to be part of our system will destroy the foundation of the respect of the Rule of Law
Herman Mashaba
Cannot host
Accept criminality
Our system
Destroy
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You know where xenophobia flourishes? In countries where there is no respect for the rule of law.
Herman Mashaba
Xenophobia flourishes
In countries
No respect
Rule of
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Make corruption public enemy number ONE, with Immediate effect, and watch how quickly South Africa moves forward!
Herman Mashaba
Make corruption
Public enemy
Number one
Immediate effect
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