Quotes by Philosophers - Page 237

If you push your luck too hard, fortune's muscles might tear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Education costs an arm and a leg, but ignorance costs you your mind and your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Watering a dead flower will not bring it back to life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Follow your heart only if it has your mind's feet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Light cannot enter a dark room without illumining it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want people to dance to your tune, sing beautiful songs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love sees more with its eyes closed than hate with its eyes open.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The heart is seldom wiser than the mind, but when it is, listen to it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love that causes you pain is better than hate that brings you pleasure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you point to paradise, all the shortsighted will see is your finger.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree fears an axe even though its handle is made from it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A storm is an artist who passes by on her way to paint your rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A book is a whole world that you can fit into your pocket.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like the sun; warm to everyone, even your enemies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Ask for a fish, and you only get one; ask for a net, and you can catch dozens.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.
Matshona Dhliwayo
People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish
Bangambiki Habyarimana
I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life
Bangambiki Habyarimana
A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The loveliest gifts sometimes come wrapped in the ugliest paper.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A small boat that sails the river is better than a large ship that sinks in the sea.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Taking a step in the dark is braver than taking a leap in light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Light cannot hide its beauty, not even in darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Intelligence is the icing, but wisdom is the cake.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
first build up your physique. then only you can get control over the mind.
Swami Vivekananda
it is only those who persevere to the end that succeed.
Swami Vivekananda
if you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.
Swami Vivekananda
stick to truth and we shall succeed, may be slowly, but surely.
Swami Vivekananda
the man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.
Swami Vivekananda
stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause.
Swami Vivekananda
Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.
Swami Vivekananda
He (God) reveals himself to the pure heart.
Swami Vivekananda
If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I will.
Swami Vivekananda
A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.
Matshona Dhliwayo