A flower does not bloom for itself, but for the world; do likewise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your feet may be small, but travel much. Your hands may be little, but conquer much. Your eyes may be tiny, but perceive much. Your ears may be modest, but heed much.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Money doesn’t help if your mind is poor, strength doesn’t help if your heart is weak, possessions don’t help if your soul is empty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise are like a river; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Destiny is like a train with no brakes, unstoppable.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Intelligence will teach you how to make a living, wisdom will teach you how to make a life.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Two minds are smarter than one.Two hands are stronger than one.Two hearts are mightier than one.Two souls are greater than one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Intelligence tells you where to look, wisdom tells you what to see.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The soul is a great magician; transforming thoughts into reality, desires into actions, and life into experiences.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your first teacher is your mother, the second is people, the third is life, and the fourth is God.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The sun is never denied the light it gives; likewise, you are never denied the kindness you bestow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t mourn over the past; it has no pity for you. Don’t cry over the present, it has no sympathy for you, and I don’t weep the future, it has no mercy on you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You are no greater than the friends you keep, the books you read, the heroes you admire, and the obstacles you overcome.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom has a hundred eyes to see opportunities, courage has a hundred feet to seek opportunities, and strength has a hundred arms to seize opportunities.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough to prepare for the future.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Beautiful beginnings are often born from ugly endings.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
