It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?
~ Alex Morritt
If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The first time you succeed it is chance, the second time it is luck, the third time it is skill, the fourth time it is talent, and the fifth time it is genius.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.
~ 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
Stir the world with your skills, shake the world with your talents, move the world with your brilliance, change the world with your genius.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When you apply that gift you possess that comes so easily to you and can be used anywhere, anytime to help someone else; maybe your family, your community, your city, state, country or the world in general... that is your PURPOSE.
~ Val Uchendu
Stars do not pull each other down to be more visible, they shine brighter.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A hunter’s meal is in proportion to his skill.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Quiet birds rob the universe of beautiful symphonies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Do what no one else can do and you will become what no one else can become.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Today’s amateurs are tomorrow’s champions.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo