Success Quotes Quotes

Don’t try to get even with those who wrong you, get ahead.

~ Mensah Oteh

People who have created their success through hard work and the support of others are always looking for ways to help those around them. Don’t be afraid to reach out.

~ Mensah Oteh

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Diamonds are valuable because they are uncommon, sand is worthless because it is common, be yourself and you will be a diamond.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay positive in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay positive in impossible situations, you are great.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion is not afraid of walking alone, even if the whole jungle is pursuing it.

~ 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

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Losing teaches you how to win, winning teaches you how not to lose.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Follow your dreams with all of your mind. Chase your dreams with all of your heart. Accomplish your dreams with all of your soul.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The world sees you for what you are, but the universe sees you for what you can be.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from seeds, even after falling to the ground they muster enough strength to rise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore all.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion does not earn its crown quarreling with sheep.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have a dream no one else can see, a reward awaits you that no one else can have.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t miss the opportunity to fly with eagles tomorrow because chickens invited you to run with them today.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Never despair if you have to start at the bottom, not even the sun rises from the top.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Never despise a seed, one day it will rise and bloom into a forest.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you fail a thousand times, find a thousand and one ways to succeed.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo