Life Lesson Quotes

A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught.

Rose

What you give away with love will always remain with you.

Debasish Mridha

Death is the final destination of every man.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Keep negative people in your prayers, not in your life.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Success is to wake up each morning and consciously decide that today will be the best day of your life.

Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you.

You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Present tears water the gardens of future blessings.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird does not achieve its highest potential inside its shell.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Storms pass by on their way to get all the colors needed to paint your rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Against all odds, a seed rises from darkness and beautifies the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Today’s storms usher in tomorrow’s sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You are a gift to the universe, but a package is only valuable if it allows itself to be unwrapped.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet.

If you want to shine, sit before a lamp; if you want to shine brighter, sit before a fire; but if you want to shine the brightest, sit before a sage.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

When life’s journey is wearisome, put on hope’s shoes.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One who thinks for himself is a threat to his enemies, a refuge to his acquaintances, a prize to his friends, and a gift to the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The past is your teacher. The present is your opportunity. The future is your reward.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

One who is not afraid to die lives, and one who is afraid to live dies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird that sings too much will only lose its voice, but a bird that does not sing at all will lose its symphonies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not waste your life away by wishing for days you may not even get to see.

When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?

If men could be bought like clothes at an outlet, only then would women always get what they bargained for.

Matshona Dhliwayo

As the sun lives on when it sets in the warmth it has given to others, you too will live on in the hearts of those whose lives you have touched.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

The world’s most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand reasons to smile, joy gives you a million reasons to laugh, and love gives you billion reasons to rejoice.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Truth is straight like a line. Virtue is firm like a wall. Wisdom is tall like a mountain. Love is wide like an ocean.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Let the beauty radiate from inside your heart to the outside world.

There is nothing more agonising than the memory of good times when you are going through a difficult period in life. Life moves in only one direction - forward, but the memoirs of years gone by keep on haunting one’s soul till the time one is alive. Nostalgia can be more painful than a surgeon’s knife.

Being able to inspire the body is an easy feat, but being able to inspire the soul as well is true talent.

In times of division and strife, build bridges to the hearts of those clouded by anger, hurt, hatred, and ignorance, so you can help open and understand their minds and hearts, and they can understand yours.

Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education.

When regret and shame fades away, beauty will be in your heart to forever stay.

The struggles of the past are the gateway to the blessings of the future.

Matshona Dhliwayo

I gave up many times but I never quit.