Quotes by Philosophers - Page 124

Roses do not take beauty advice from weeds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A wise person makes one error,and learns ten lessons.He makes two errors,and learns twenty lessons.He makes three errors,and learns thirty lessons.He makes few errors,and learns countless lessons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Help more than is needed.Care more than is required.Give more than is expected.Love more than is anticipated.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Hear others, and you will be heard.Understand others, and you will be understood.Help others, and you be will be helped.Love others, and you will be loved.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Avoid impious people,run from fools,seek out the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Encourage many,enlighten many,and you will empower many.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Train the ears to hear more.Train the eyes to see more.Train the hands to do more.Train the feet to accomplish more.Train the mind to think more.Train the heart to feel more.Train the soul to love more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you are walking on water it is fear, not sharks, that sinks you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To patch up a relationship, understanding is the needle, and love is the thread.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't be afraid of marrying the right person even if they come from the wrong background.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never commit to what you are not willing to do.
Gift Gugu Mona
Never attempt to take your own or somebody else's life because someday you will account for that.
Gift Gugu Mona
When you run your own race, don't worry about the next person's pace; mind yours, after all this is your own race not theirs.
Gift Gugu Mona
Life is a very important assignment. God will score us at the end.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When they judge you, yawn.When they misunderstand you, smile.When they underestimate you, laugh.When they condemn you, ignore.When they envy you, rejoice.When they oppose you, prevail.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Justice is blind, but judges have eyes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not hold grudges against those who try to keep you down; the higher you go, the smaller they become. Do not trust those who try to push you down once you are up;the more envious they are, the more dangerous they become.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to rise, drop everyone that is weighing you down.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a lifetime.
Matshona Dhliwayo
My words are my thesis, my actions are my dissertation, and my life is my philosophy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Even in silence a heart can scream.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I am 1324512000 seconds old. In the cosmic blink of an eye, I will become once again cosmic dust.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life is like a comet that briefly crosses the night sky without almost being noticed
Bangambiki Habyarimana
If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask "What can the world offer to me?" but "What can I offer to the world?
Bangambiki Habyarimana
You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Far help seldom solves near troubles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your mind is your world.Your heart is your nature.Your soul is your universe.Your life is your creation.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The fastest way to end an argument with your wife is to admit she’s right.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If he's not a wreck without you, you married the wrong man.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't look for Mrs. Right if all your character demonstrates is you are Mr. Wrong.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When the heart says “yes” it is difficult for the mind to say “no.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you stand in the way of two people who were meant to be together, destiny's train will run you over.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the only rose whose thorn's prick is sweet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Hate may have its hour, but love will have its day.
Matshona Dhliwayo
For a marriage to work a husband must learn these two words: “Yes dear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Nice guys finish last but bad guys don't finish at all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The bitterest fruit tastes sweet when you share it with someone you love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot carry your past without dropping your future.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One soul-mate is enough to face life's countless soul-enemies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Boys are raw materials that women manufacture into products called men.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I was my own boss, but that all changed the day I got married.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Count your summers, not your winters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are like a seed; your greater beauty lies not on the outside, but within.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A quality wife guarantees you a quality life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Raise your thoughts. Ennoble your desires. Better your actions. Elevate your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make it possible for the students to become themselves.
Paulo Freire
Now, it is of course well known that Christ continually uses the expression 'imitators.' He never says that he asks for admirers, adoring admirers, adherents; and when he uses the expression 'follower' he always explains it in such a way that one perceives that 'imitators' is meant by it, that is not adherents of a teaching but imitators of a life....
Søren Kierkegaard
To teach, learn. To learn, teach.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
Immanuel Kant
This is the pedagogical paradox. The person and the teacher is required precisely because the knowledge itself is nontransferable from teacher to student.
Rebecca Goldstein