Sage Quotes Quotes

Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Water your dreams with fear, and they will wilt; with doubt, and they will wither; with hope, and they will grow; with faith, and they will flourish.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird will only fall from the sky when it stops believing in its ability to fly, and a fish will only drown in water when it stops believing in its ability to swim.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your mind is a gift. Your heart is a prize. Your soul is a blessing. Your life is a reward.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You were born to dream. You were born to strive. You were born to conquer. You were born to rise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is difficult for flowers to hide their beauty, that is why they are always picked first.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

They know your face, but not your mind.They understand your words, but not your heart.They hear your name, but not your soul.They grasp your past, but not your future.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are one thought away from intelligence, one word away from kindness, one deed away from excellence, one step away from brilliance, and one second away from transcendence.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower in a desert still has no reason to envy a thorn in a rainforest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No matter how deep you bury good seeds, they always find a way to rise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No matter how beautiful a rose is it must still grow in dirt.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge gives you the world, intelligence gives you the sky, understanding gives you the stars, but wisdom gives you the universe.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In helping yourself, you prove you are strong; in helping others, you prove you are compassionate; in helping many, you prove you are generous; if helping everyone, you prove you are enlightened.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Yesterday says, “Forget me, but learn from me.” Today says, “Embrace me, yet utilize me.”Tomorrow says, “Anticipate me, then prepare for me.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide.

~ 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

Those who laugh with you when you laugh are acquaintances, those who cry with you when you cry are companions, and those who do both are friends.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want little, give little; if you want much, give much; if you want all, give all.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey.

~ 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

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You can paint the whole sky black, but that won’t keep stars from shinning.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo