Wisdom Quotes Quotes

Beware of befriending wolves; remember, they are only loyal to their appetite.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Winning doesn't necessarily mean you'll walk away with a trophy. Sometimes winning means you dared to show up at all to see the shocked look of your rivals.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

If you want to heal or experience more happiness in life, learn to move out of the head and be in your heart more. You will know you are in your head when you analyze, control and overthink. When you have run on thoughts, worry, and talk without listening. When you take all the workshops and read all the books, but aren't experiencing it's message in your life, in your heart.

~ Eileen Anglin

It is in vain to try and kick the wind.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The pen is mightier than the sword, it should never run out of ink.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge is strength, understanding is mastery, and wisdom is power.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom is intelligence set on fire.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A quick enlightenment tends to do more harm than good. Wise may easily become unwise.

~ Iva Kenaz

Intelligence will help you build a company, wisdom will help you build an empire.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Money is a great asset, talent is an extraordinary asset, and courage is an exceptional asset.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowing your strengths is intelligence, knowing your weakness is wisdom.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The greatest evidence of what is inside of a seed is its fruit.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Because the moon is not jealous of the sun, it benefits from its light.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in the shade that you look up at a tree and appreciate its efforts.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

We all come into the world rocks, but the enlightened leave it diamonds.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

From language to no-language is the journey and certainly every master has to use lies to attract you, to make you aware of your mindlessness, your stupidity. That's why I tell you to relish this very moment, and when you squeeze out the juice of every moment, then you will realise that there is nothing worthy in this world, then for the first time you start turning IN-wards, not otherwise!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

If you serve two masters, either of them may punish you for serving the other.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The question to ask ourselves; Would you rather be right or would you rather have peace? Some battles are worth fighting, and some are not.If being right is more important than having peace, and the cause doesn't evolve or enhance life, then we must ask ourselves; why do I need to be right?The question to ask in our own lives. At our work, within our homes and in our global community.

~ Eileen Anglin

A tree is naked, no matter how big, if it does not have leaves.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

~ James Allen

Look behind you! Can you see yesterday? Look ahead of you! Can you see tomorrow? Yesterday is gone; tomorrow is yet to come! Learn from yesterday and plan for tomorrow, but be happy with your today, for that is all you have! Work hard with diligence in it and do your best to make it the best today! You may never have another wonderful day like today! If it is a rough day, work hard to be an over comer in the day, and that will make your story for the day a wonderful one! If it is a comfortable day, enjoy it and invest in it for a lasting tomorrow’s comfort for you least know what in reality is ahead of you! Build a solid tomorrow today! Today is today; use it well!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Purpose and reason? Purpose and reason are not the same thing. Reason seeks to understand. Purpose requires faith. Reason is attained. Purpose is revealed. Reason is acquired by works. Purpose is endowed with grace. And wisdom is the combination of both.

~ Rj Blizzard

Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight, wisdom swings it wide open.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot tell a river in which direction it should flow, but you can steer your boat.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A bee, though small, can still sting you; an elephant, though calm, can still trample you; a lion, though full, can still devour you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Light is a beautiful servant, darkness is a dangerous master.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligence opens the door to the universe, but only wisdom walks through.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Sages see further with their eyes closed than scholars with their eyes open.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

It is never a river’s fault that one cannot swim.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Know truth. Respect facts. Doubt opinions. Reject lies.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Take your time to find and understand what you don’t know and in the end, you shall know that it is not all the things you know that shows you something you don’t know, but something you don’t know!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah