Life Lessons Quotations Quotes

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and you are shrewd; but learn from all, and you are wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In a crowd do not lose your individuality, and in your individuality do not lose the crowd.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Time is your acquaintance. Life is your friend. Death is your opponent. Eternity is your companion.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If birds did not believe in their ability to fly, the sky would be empty.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Water your dreams with fear, and they will wilt; with doubt, and they will wither; with hope, and they will grow; with faith, and they will flourish.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You were born to dream. You were born to strive. You were born to conquer. You were born to rise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is difficult for flowers to hide their beauty, that is why they are always picked first.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

They know your face, but not your mind.They understand your words, but not your heart.They hear your name, but not your soul.They grasp your past, but not your future.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are one thought away from intelligence, one word away from kindness, one deed away from excellence, one step away from brilliance, and one second away from transcendence.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No matter how deep you bury good seeds, they always find a way to rise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm,the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t resent the sky for its storms, esteem it for its rainbows.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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