Life Lessons Quotations Quotes

A lion does not earn its crown quarreling with sheep.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The sun does not rise abruptly, but perseveres until it rules the sky.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.

~ 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 a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When life’s journey is wearisome, put on hope’s shoes.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Words let you know what is in someone’s mind, deeds let you know what is in someone’s heart, and character lets you know what is in someone’s soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t let people draw you into their darkness, pull them into your light.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If your present thoughts do not lift you higher than your previous ones, rid yourself of them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

True riches belong to those who shun false ones.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Seeds, not doubting their potential, rise and become forests.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.

~ 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

In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be selfless like a burning candle, giving of yourself to others even if it consumes you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to be strong, love yourself; if you want to be powerful, love others; if you want to be invincible, love everyone.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t miss the opportunity to fly with eagles tomorrow because chickens invited you to run with them today.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one.

~ 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

Never despair if you have to start at the bottom, not even the sun rises from the top.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo