The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One who conquers the sea today is ready to conquer the ocean tomorrow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When the sun sets do not despair, hope sits with you in the dark.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A warrior is defined by his scars, not his medals.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Cowards shrink from challenges, weaklings flee from them, and warriors wink at them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Never give a negative thought an inch or it will take a mile.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you count your blessings, count life twice.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are formed in pressure, that is why God allows you to go through difficult times.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have never walked a mile in someone’s shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a thorough university, pain and hardship are its distinguished professors.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A star doesn’t have to announce its arrival, it just shows up and shines.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear is an assassin; if you let it in your life, it will kill your dreams.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An inch of light can conquer a mile of darkness.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Respect your haters, they are always the first to show you that you are better than them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Make your own luck, and then share it with others.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Seeds are proof that God sometimes packages miracles in small things.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Never mock a cub, one day it will become a lion.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo