Life Lessons Quotes - Page 3

Harsh winters precede pleasant springs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLEYou canLose a childOr a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport,Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel likeYou've lost everything,And keep on losing.StopCounting lossesAnd start counting your blessings.Only then,Will you discover that lossesAre easier to point outAnd countThan blessings,And that blessingsOutnumber your lossesFor they are trulyImmeasurable.It is only normal thatPeople count losses withTheir minds,And ignoreTo count blessingsWith the graciousnessOf their hearts.

Patience and Forgiveness are at the heart of A warrior's success, they help engender necessary intervals of space and time to evaluate difficult encounters.

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

Better than money and fame, teaching martial arts to your children; giving them your time and confidence, is the best inheritance

Soke Behzad Ahmadi

A prayer and positive affirmation are the keys for a divine intervention in any situation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be the music of your soul. Don't be a pawn in someone else's game.

Amit Ray

American can mean anything you want it to mean. It can mean that you live in America. It can mean that you are privileged. Being American can also mean that you are diverse. In many ways, the title American is an oxymoron because one may look it on the outside but not feel it on the inside.

Sometimes, the reason that people don’t get along is because they feel that their role is to be selfish or submissive—not understanding that American simply means understanding who we are so that we can help others do the same.

Reality tries to disguise the fact that this society neglects to provide equal opportunity established by God and clarified in the Constitution. Whether equal opportunity is given to an individual or not, he/she still has the equal potential within him/herself to advance and obtain a greater level of success.

May you find strength to survive life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We do not get to choose how we start out in life. We do not get to choose the day we are born or the family we are born into, what we are named at birth, what country we are born in, and we do not get to choose our ancestry. All these things are predetermined by a higher power. By the time you are old enough to start making decisions for yourself, a lot of things in your life are already in place. It’s important, therefore, that you focus on the future, the only thing that you can change.

Idowu Koyenikan

Enlightenment lacks any form of judgment.

Reframing your past painful experiences and seeing them in a humorous light takes away the power and emotional charge attached to the memory of the hurtful event.

Miya Yamanouchi

Every Daydream-hope starts with little incentives !

Some things happen for a reason, Others just come with the season.

Ana Claudia Antunes

Do not be overcome by hate. But conquer hate with love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Today’s storms usher in tomorrow’s sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

You are as the sun; the world is your stage; even without an audience, shine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, “My life has just begun.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have much, be generous; if you have little, be grateful; even if you have nothing, be hopeful.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Fear is an assassin; if you let it in your life, it will kill your dreams.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.

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

Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Never give a negative thought an inch or it will take a mile.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When you count your blessings, count life twice.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

In a world full of pebbles dare to be a diamond.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Don’t waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.

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

If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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