Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.
~ 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
The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion is not afraid of walking alone, even if the whole jungle is pursuing it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.
~ 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
You can paint the whole sky black, but that won’t keep stars from shinning.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Rest as if you’ll live forever, work as if you’ll die today.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.
~ 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
You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One who protects himself from negative thoughts protects himself from negative outcomes.
~ 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
If birds sing without worrying about who is listening to them, and monkeys dance without worrying about who is watching them, and hyenas laugh without worrying about who is mocking them, then you too must do what you do best without worrying about who is ridiculing you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The world sees you for what you are, but the universe sees you for what you can be.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest lesson a tree can give you is to stand tall and proud, no matter how strong life’s winds blow against you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from seeds, even after falling to the ground they muster enough strength to rise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I’m ready for you. Dear future, I’m coming for you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.
~ 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
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 you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.
~ 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 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
In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.
~ 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