Wise-sayings-quotes Quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo · Page 4

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“What you think is a seed, what you say is the bud, and what you do is the fruit.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The storm is an artist; the rainbow is its masterpiece.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“An archer must never blame a target for missing it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“While the whole world was asleep, the caterpillar was awake, working towards becoming a butterfly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you want to meet fish, you go in water, and if you want to meet birds, visit the sky.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out.”

— 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…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough to prepare for the…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and you are shrewd; but learn from…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If the sun shone for itself, it would be blinded by its own light; if a river flowed for itself, it would…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Trees generously share their fruit. Bees generously share their honey. Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Intelligence tells you where to look; wisdom tells you what to see.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A flower always turns its face to light; do likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“An angel who makes you cry is better than a devil who makes you smile.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Hate is strong, fear is mighty, jealousy is powerful, but love is invincible.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Daisies that bring you joy are better than roses that bring you sorrow.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“An angry wife can be more frightening than an army of disgruntled soldiers.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Light travels half away around the world while darkness is still putting its shoes on.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The sun consumes even itself to give light to a dark world; do likewise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A river only flows upstream when God is drawing it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Divorce fear. Court courage. Pursue hope. Marry love.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“It would take a fish a lifetime to climb a tree but only a year to cross the ocean.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“A wolf can only curse a lion when surrounded by its peers.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Honey doesn’t lose its sweetness because it is made by bees that sting.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“The heart is seldom wiser than the mind, but when it is, listen to it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo