Life Lessons Quotes Quotes

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have power, be just; wealth, be generous; knowledge, be wise; titles, be humble; and life, be grateful.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Thoughts can only hurt you with your permission, feelings can only wound you with your consent, experiences can only damage you with your authorization; life can only ruin you with your approval.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Books are a stairway to knowledge, experience is a highway to understanding, together they are an elevator to enlightenment.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore all.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

When perplexed, God appears to you in the form of wisdom; when troubled, in the form of peace; when sad, in the form of joy; when heartbroken, in the form of love.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion does not earn its crown quarreling with sheep.

~ 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

Life is nothing more than a contradiction.

~ James Jean-Pierre

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

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

Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet.

~ Ken Poirot