Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge gives you the world, intelligence gives you the sky, understanding gives you the stars, but wisdom gives you the universe.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are valuable because they are uncommon, sand is worthless because it is common, be yourself and you will be a diamond.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay optimistic in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay hopeful in impossible situations, you are great.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Yesterday says, “Forget me, but learn from me.” Today says, “Embrace me, yet utilize me.”Tomorrow says, “Anticipate me, then prepare for me.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay positive in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay positive in impossible situations, you are great.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You can paint the whole sky black, but that won’t keep stars from shinning.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The world is full of angels; if you can’t find one, be one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Follow your dreams with all of your mind. Chase your dreams with all of your heart. Accomplish your dreams with all of your soul.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be so warm that people mistake you for the sun, so bright that people mistake you for the stars, and so accommodating that people mistake you for the universe.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When a storm shows up, always remind yourself a rainbow is hiding behind it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A beautiful gift does not decrease in value because it is wrapped in ugly paper.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest lesson a tree can give you is to stand tall and proud, no matter how strong life’s winds blow against you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I’m ready for you. Dear future, I’m coming for you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have a dream no one else can see, a reward awaits you that no one else can have.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When life’s journey is wearisome, put on hope’s shoes.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is easier for stars to shine in darkness, that is why dark times come into your life.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be selfless like a burning candle, giving of yourself to others even if it consumes you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Great winds only challenge great trees.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Never despise a seed, one day it will rise and bloom into a forest.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Snails do not despair for having short legs, but rejoice for being able to travel long distances in spite of them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how tall and wide darkness is, it cannot block the stars.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo