Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.
~ 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
Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet.
~ Ken Poirot
Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.
~ 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
A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Ears for wisdom, hands for work, eyes for opportunities, and a mouth for thanks.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Never mock a cub, one day it will become a lion.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Never set fire to a bridge while you are still crossing it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
No one benefits from an empty jar, fill yourself first before pouring out to others.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird does not give up flying because it failed on its first attempt.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm is an artist, the rainbow is its masterpiece.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The rainbow’s colors are hidden in the storm.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I prefer male enemies to female ones, I can survive a dog’s bite better than a scorpion’s sting.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo