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Famous Matshona Dhliwayo Quotes

“Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.”

“An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.”

“On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.”

“A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.”

“When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them.”

“Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be.”

“If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.”

“If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.”

“Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.”

“Use the dirt life throws at you to plant the seeds of your success.”

“If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.”

“Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.”

“Conquer your vices. Exploit your virtues. Release your vices. Embrace your higher self.”

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

“Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.”

“You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within.”

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

“Don't run with the crowd; fly with the stars.”

“Don’t strive to be superior to others; strive to be better than you were yesterday.”

“In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.”

“Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are.”

“If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.”

“If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven.”

“When excellence becomes a habit, success becomes a lifestyle.”

“Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.”

“A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond.”

“When you hear love calling you, don’t pretend to be deaf.”

“A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.”

“Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.”

“A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.”

“Life is temporal. Time is fleeting. God is permanent. Eternity is enduring.”

“You’re destined for greatness,” Life said. “But first, I’m going to make you cry.”

“At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.”

“Enough pain will keep you humble. Enough grief will keep you compassionate. Enough trouble will keep you strong. Enough hardship will keep you grateful.”

“A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.”

“As paint needs a canvass for its beauty to show, stars need darkness for their splendor to shine.”

“Seeds, not doubting their potential, rise and become forests.”

“Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace.”

“It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted.”

“If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love.”

“Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul.”

“Don’t climb a mountain to look down on people below, but to get a clearer view of the stars above.”

“Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark.”