Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do.
In plain words
Where you start does not decide where you finish, if you love what you do.
Where these words come from
- 85% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Letter to cricketer Makhaya Ntini on his 100th Test (17 Dec 2009); cited via the Nelson Mandela Foundation's authorised quotations archive.
- 2009
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