Wise Quotations Quotes

“A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A flower earns its honor in the dirt.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A strong mind is greater than a strong fist.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Knowledge is silver, but true wisdom is gold.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The world owes you nothing because the universe has already given you everything.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“There is too much negativity in the world. Do your best to make sure you aren't contributing to it.”
― Germany Kent

“The prettiest flowers earn their honor in the ugliest dirt.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is easier to teach saints than to learn from sinners.
It is easier to teach young students than to guide old fools.
It is easier to chastise saints than to caution sinners.
It is easier to shine in the dark than to glow in the light.
It is easier to multiply enemies than to accumulate friends.
It is easier to embrace your angel than to face your demons.
It is easier to fight an army of opinions than a single truth.
It is easier to rise with enemies than to fall with friends.
It is easier to fall into sin than to rise into virtue.
It is easier to rise from defeat than to rise from ignorance.
It is easier to survive a blow from a friend than a kiss from an enemy.
It is easier to conquer a thousand devils than a single angel.
It is easier to rise from love than to soar from hate.
It is easier to move mountains by faith than hills by your hands.
It is easier for stars to shine than for truth to glow.
It is easier to resist pain than to defy pleasure.
It is easier to appease the strong than to wrestle the mighty.
It is easier to tame the mind than to bridle the soul.
It is easier to fight an army than to grapple with your conscience.
It is easier to embrace the future than to understand the past.
It is easier for the sun to shine than for the moon to glow.
It is easier for small seeds to rise than for big trees to grow.
It is easier to heal a wounded heart than a broken soul.
It is easier to rule the mind than to conquer the soul.
It is easier to conquer your enemies than to master your fears.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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

“Wisdom from a stranger is better than ignorance from a friend.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“True wisdom is like an ocean; the deeper you go the greater the treasures you'll find.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A lily is a water's diamond.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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

“Rest is good, but laziness is not.
Labour is good, but slavery is not.
Wine is good, but drunkenness is not.
Food is good, but gluttony is not.
Money is good, but greed is not.
Wealth is good, but selfishness is not.
Beauty is good, but vanity is not.
Sex is good, but lust is not.
Pleasure is good, but sin is not.
Amusement is good, but decadence is not.
Fame is good, but self importance is not.
Confidence is good, but ego is not.
Eloquence is good, but flattery is not.
Charisma is good, but deception is not.
Ambition is good, but self interest is not.
Influence is good, but manipulation is not.
Authority is good, but tyranny is not.
Servitude is good, but bondage is not.
Admiration is good, but idolatry is not.
Law is good, but injustice is not.
Race pride is good, but bigotry is not.
Liberty is good, but recklessness is not.
Freedom is good, but unruliness is not.
Belief is good, but fanaticism is not.
Religion is good, but extremism is not.
Righteousness is good, but zealotry is not.
All is good, but in excess is not.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Become braver, stronger, wiser, kinder, and you will become better.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Love is my mother. Joy is my sister. Knowledge is brother. Wisdom is my soulmate.”
― 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 student's wisdom is more valuable than a professor's knowledge.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is better to seek light than to give into darkness.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It doesn’t cost much to hate,
but it costs you everything to love.
It doesn’t cost much to fall,
but it costs you everything to rise.
It doesn’t cost much to doubt,
but it costs you everything to believe.
It doesn’t cost much to forget,
but it costs you everything to remember.
It doesn’t cost much to take,
but it costs you everything to give.
It doesn’t cost much to create,
but it costs you everything to destroy.
It doesn’t cost much to seek,
but it costs you everything to find.
It doesn’t cost much to command,
but it costs you everything to obey.
It doesn’t cost much to destroy,
but it costs you everything to build.
It doesn’t cost much to hinder,
but it costs you everything to help.
It doesn’t cost much to harm,
but it costs you everything to heal.
It doesn’t cost much to revenge,
but it costs you everything to forgive.
It doesn’t cost much to condenm,
but it costs you everything to sympathize.
It doesn’t cost much to assume,
but it costs you everything to prove.
It doesn’t cost much to ignore,
but it costs you everything to understand.
It doesn’t cost much to despise,
but it costs you everything to honor.
It doesn’t cost much to blame,
but it costs you everything to praise.
It doesn’t cost much to denounce,
but it costs you everything to appluad.
It doesn’t cost much to rest,
but it costs you everything to work.
It doesn’t cost much to surrender,
but it costs you everything to conquer.
It doesn’t cost much to lose,
but it costs you everything to win.
It doesn’t cost much to fail,
but it costs you everything to succeed.
It doesn’t cost much to rest,
but it costs you everything to work.
It doesn’t cost much to die,
but it costs you everything to live.
It doesn’t cost much to sit,
but it costs you everything to stand.
It doesn’t cost much to walk,
but it costs you everything to run.
It doesn’t cost much to jog,
but it costs you everything to soar.
It doesn’t cost much to follow,
but it costs you everything to lead.
It doesn’t cost much to give up,
but it costs you everything to persevere.”
― matshona dhliwayo

“It is death that makes life precious,
darkness that makes light precious,
dirt that makes flowers precious,
storms that make rainbows precious,
pain that makes pleasure precious,
chaos that makes harmony precious,
space that makes matter precious,
clutter that makes orderliness precious,
chance that makes certainty precious,
eternity that makes time precious,
truth that makes reality precious,
silence that makes speech precious,
rest that makes motion precious,
opinions that make facts precious,
strife that makes peace precious,
curiosity that makes knowledge precious,
suspicion that makes evidence precious,
fear that makes caution precious,
slavery that makes freedom precious,
oblivion that makes existence precious,
yesterday that makes tomorrow precious,
and tomorrow that makes forever precious.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

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

“Truth is a servant, reality is its master.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo