Student Quotes Quotes

Inhale every blessing you can think of, and exhale all that is not. Like a fist that can always get tighter, you can always give more. It is essential that you know that in your heart, and you will survive this day as you have so many in the past. You can get through this. I believe in the power of you.

~ Ace Antonio Hall

Hunger is a lesser evil than ignorance.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn more. Love more. Laugh more. Live more.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.

~ Abhijit Naskar

During my school years, I was never a brilliant student, but just an average one, with only above average level of curiosity.

~ Abhijit Naskar

The loudest preacher in the world is your conscience, the cleverest is wisdom, the rowdiest is passion, the surest is truth, the purest is love, and the highest is God.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Shine your light at all times, you never know who you are leading out of the dark.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligence tells you where to look, wisdom tells you what to see.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Your first teacher is your mother, the second is people, the third is life, and the fourth is God.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and you are shrewd; but learn from all, and you are wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Know what you want. Pursue what you need. Realize what you ought. Attain what you desire.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

~ 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

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge is the path, understanding is the way, wisdom is the highway, and enlightenment is the destination.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Books are a stairway to knowledge, experience is a highway to understanding, together they are an elevator to enlightenment.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

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

~ 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

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

~ 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

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is a thorough university, pain and hardship are its distinguished professors.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird is born knowing how to fly, but has to learn to conquer the skies.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo