Life Lessons Quotations Quotes

Diamonds are valuable because they are uncommon, sand is worthless because it is common, be yourself and you will be a diamond.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In helping yourself, you prove you are strong; in helping others, you prove you are compassionate; in helping many, you prove you are generous; if helping everyone, you prove you are enlightened.

~ 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

Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them.

~ 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

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those who do both are friends.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want little, give little; if you want much, give much; if you want all, give all.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself.

~ 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

No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart’s safe.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey.

~ 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

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You can paint the whole sky black, but that won’t keep stars from shinning.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Rest as if you’ll live forever, work as if you’ll die today.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Losing teaches you how to win, winning teaches you how not to lose.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A tree is only as good as the seed it is stems from.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.

~ 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

Be merry, because it confuses your enemies; happy, because it annoys them; cheerful, because it angers them; and joyful, because it kills them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One who protects himself from negative thoughts protects himself from negative outcomes.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The greatest universe is not somewhere out there, but inside of yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The most beautiful people are those who bring out the beauty in others.

~ 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

Time crawls when you are bored, walks when you are occupied, runs when you are busy, but flies when you are having fun.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo