“It is easier to train stubborn children than obstinate adults.”
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Famous Matshona Dhliwayo Quotes
“You battle ignorance by battling illiteracy, and battle illiteracy by battling ignorance.”
“Never give a negative thought an inch or it will take a mile.”
“When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them.”
“Don't worry about those who rejected you, they were preparing you for those who would accept you.”
“If you erase all of your bad memories, you erase all of your wisdom.”
“When I was young, my father taught me a slave had only one duty: TO BURN DOWN THE PLANTATION.”
“What you can give to the world is greater than what you can get out of it.”
“The most valuable people in life are those who take the least but give the most.”
“Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be.”
“It is difficult to get anything from the world that you yourself are not willing to give.”
“You never truly lose what you are not afraid of giving away.”
“The world judges you by what you have, the universe judges you by what you give.”
“What you give to the world is greater than what you can get out of it.”
“Practice never makes you perfect, but it gets you closer to perfection.”
“Problems are weights that come into your life to strengthen your emotional muscles.”
“The world's greatest people are those who solve the world's greatest problems.”
“Go around your problems, go over them, beneath them, and if you can, go through them.”
“If your thoughts are higher than your problems, you can fly above them.”
“Spiritual problems cannot be solved with intellectual solutions.”
“If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.”
“False friends, like weeds, try very hard to appear genuine.”
“The world needs your mind, the cosmos need your heart, and the universe needs your soul.”
“The world belongs to the intelligent, the universe belongs to the wise.”
“The world loves you for what you have, the universe adores you for who you are.”
“Smile at the world. Wink at the stars. Glow at the universe.”
“The world is in your smile, the universe is in your laughter.”