Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life Quotes.

1. "By maturity, he meant that he learned to control those more youthful impulses, not that he was no longer stung or hurt or angry. It is not that you always know what to do or how to do it, it is that you are able to tamp down the emotions and anxieties that get in the way of seeing the world as it is. You can see through them, and that will see you through."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

2. "And that is how he would describe courage: pretending to be brave. Fearlessness is stupidity. Courage is not letting the fear defeat you."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

3. "Conditions plus principles determine strategy."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

4. "The Renaissance idea of individualism never penetrated Africa like it did Europe and America. The African model of leadership is better expressed as ubuntu, the idea that people are empowered by other people, that we become our best selves through unselfish interaction with others."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

5. "Just as pretending to be brave can become real courage, we may find that outfitting ourselves as the person we want to be brings us closer to becoming that person."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

6. "Yes, emotions may be authentic, and authenticity is a modern virtue, but one can be authentic without being unnecessarily revealing."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

7. "Courage is not the absence of fear, he taught me. It’s learning to overcome it."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

8. "Even after emerging from prison and becoming South Africa’s first democratically elected president, he continued"
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

9. "Trust is a foundation of leadership. We trust that a leader is honest, able, and has a vision of where to go. But trust operates on an even deeper level. We trust that a leader is who he appears to be, that the public person and the private one are the same."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life

10. "leadership often means having to choose between two bad options and that good men have to make decisions that have bad consequences."
- Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life