Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
No one benefits from an empty jar, fill yourself first before pouring out to others.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be noble like the sun, let even those who resent you for shinning benefit from your warmth.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You are as the sun; the world is your stage; even without an audience, shine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The universe sees your beauty, now see the beauty in others.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Thoughts are powerful; before you were born, you were one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Seeds are proof that God puts within you what is supposed to enrich the world around you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An ambitious amateur will rise above a complacent master.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you serve two masters, either of them may punish you for serving the other.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight, wisdom swings it wide open.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bee, though small, can still sting you; an elephant, though calm, can still trample you; a lion, though full, can still devour you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Light is a beautiful servant, darkness is a dangerous master.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind speaks, though it does not have lips.The heart moves, though it does not have feet.The soul rises, though it does not have wings.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind is a temple of knowledge, the heart is a temple of understanding, and the soul is a temple of wisdom; together they are a temple of enlightenment.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is the roof that fights the rain, but the builder who gets all the glory.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Light travels halfway around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo