A rose does not need to boast of what the whole world already knows, its beauty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you look at a rose try to focus on its beauty, not its thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Anyone can love a rose, but only a saint can love its thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how beautiful a rose is it must still grow in dirt.
~ 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
A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose’s beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the only rose whose thorn's prick is sweet.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Whenever we see a deserted rose, we immediately think about a broken relationship and we imagine the sadness they went through without thinking the poor dead rose ever!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan