Wise Quotes Quotes

One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Nature hides its secrets in wisdom, the universe hides its secrets in love.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Live each day as if it were your last, love each day as if you will live forever.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want the most beautiful fish in the sea, make sure you have the most appealing bait.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Shine your light at all times, you never know who you are leading out of the dark.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love knows the way because love is the way.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Love gives with its eyes closed, hate destroys with its eyes open.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One who cannot swim must not blame the water.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

One fish in your net is better than a thousand in the ocean.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

In calm waters you still find sharks.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Symphonies begin with one note, fires with one flame, gardens with one flower, and masterpieces with one stroke.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

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

More than being human, we need peace and love.More than being strong and capable, we need compassion.More than being clever, we need kindness and gentleness.But where are all these sense of humanity?Where is the love that we have for human life and nature?Where is the peace that we once had?What about our dreams, dream of a better world?Little children are crying, am beginning to feel guilty.Where is that sense of brotherhood?Where is the compassion?What about our faith, have we lost trust in God?

~ Nurudeen Ushawu

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