Life Lessons Quotes Quotes

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

Sometimes the only way to gain someone's favor is to stop giving them yours.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

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

We are filled vessels that gets to choose what we pour back into the world, and what we choose to share defines who we are.

~ Micheline Jean Louis

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

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

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

~ 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

A river does not go looking for water, water comes looking for it instead.

~ 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