Sage Quotes Quotes

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t let people draw you into their darkness, pull them into your light.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

True riches belong to those who shun false ones.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be selfless like a burning candle, giving of yourself to others even if it consumes you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to be strong, love yourself; if you want to be powerful, love others; if you want to be invincible, love everyone.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

~ 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

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

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No one benefits from an empty jar, fill yourself first before pouring out to others.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be noble like the sun, let even those who resent you for shinning benefit from your warmth.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are as the sun; the world is your stage; even without an audience, shine.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The universe sees your beauty, now see the beauty in others.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Thoughts are powerful; before you were born, you were one.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

He (Jesus) gave up his life not because of the so-called sins of humanity, but because he was too adamant to give in to orthodox monstrosity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo