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
Intelligence will teach you how to make a living, wisdom will teach you how to make a life.
~ 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
Practicing what you preach is the world’s most eloquent sermon.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your soul, when you elevate others; and your life, when you empower others.
~ 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
Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others.
~ 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
Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself.
~ 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
The sweeter the fruit a tree bears the greater the number of birds that eat from it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.
~ 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
There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo