Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your feet may be small, but travel much. Your hands may be little, but conquer much. Your eyes may be tiny, but perceive much. Your ears may be modest, but heed much.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Money doesn’t help if your mind is poor, strength doesn’t help if your heart is weak, possessions don’t help if your soul is empty.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The wise are like a river; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Destiny is like a train with no brakes, unstoppable.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Intelligence will teach you how to make a living, wisdom will teach you how to make a life.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Intelligence tells you where to look, wisdom tells you what to see.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Your mind has the intellect to lift the world,your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom has a hundred eyes to see opportunities, courage has a hundred feet to seek opportunities, and strength has a hundred arms to seize opportunities.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough to prepare for the future.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.
~ 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
A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo