Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.
~ 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
Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I’m ready for you. Dear future, I’m coming for you.
~ 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
It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Never despair if you have to start at the bottom, not even the sun rises from the top.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you fail a thousand times, find a thousand and one ways to succeed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Patience and Forgiveness are at the heart of A warrior's success, they help engender necessary intervals of space and time to evaluate difficult encounters.
~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi
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
In the presence of the sun nobody sees the stars; excel, and you too will eclipse your competition.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Reach for the stars, not your fears.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Use the arrows failure throws at you to hunt for success.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Because failure works double time, to get success, work triple time.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Shatter your fears and you will shatter records.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Step up your game and success will step up to you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no cure for ambition other than success.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The road to success is paved with doubters and haters.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An army of disciplined sheep is greater than an army of undisciplined wolves.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If a flower perseveres through concrete, you can persevere through anything.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If an eagle is teaching you to fly, ignore the advice of turkeys.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The farther you venture into the forest the more valuable the fruit.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Stumbling up a hill strengthens you more than sprinting down a mountain.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Fortune hides behind action.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If records refuse to be broken, shatter them.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo