Motivational Quotations Quotes

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

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

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

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Great winds only challenge great trees.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Never despise a seed, one day it will rise and bloom into a forest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo