Life Lessons Quotes - Page 41

You have little control over the world around you, but full control over the world within you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A warrior is defined by his scars, not his medals.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Cowards shrink from challenges, weaklings flee from them, and warriors wink at them.

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When you count your blessings, count life twice.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have never walked a mile in someone’s shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Happy is he who marries the woman he wants, happier is he who marries the woman he needs, and happiest is he who marries the woman he wants and needs.

Matshona Dhliwayo

No matter how tall and wide darkness is, it cannot block the stars.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Make your wife happier, children wiser, yourself kinder, and you will make your life better.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t miss the opportunity to fly with eagles tomorrow because chickens invited you to run with them today.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A small sharp axe can cut down more trees than a big dull one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Great winds only challenge great trees.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you fail a thousand times, find a thousand and one ways to succeed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To achieve success, ignore doubt; fame, ignore haters; greatness, ignore fear; and immortality, ignore hardship.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If the road to your dreams is full of potholes, take the highway.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The less you want, the happier you are; the happier you are, the less you want.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.

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.

Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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 want to be strong, love yourself; if you want to be powerful, love others; if you want to be invincible, love everyone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence.

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

If you guide others out of the dark, you are a star, even if no one knows your name.

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

Words let you know what is in someone’s mind, deeds let you know what is in someone’s heart, and character lets you know what is in someone’s soul.

Matshona Dhliwayo

To help yourself, help others; to help others, help yourself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If your present thoughts do not lift you higher than your previous ones, rid yourself of them.

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True riches belong to those who shun false ones.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A lion does not become king of the jungle hunting mice.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to try and stop a star from rising, even with a ladder.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Seeds, not doubting their potential, rise and become forests.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have a dream no one else can see, a reward awaits you that no one else can have.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

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A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The greater the number of fish a river bears the greater the number of fishermen that patronize it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Life is nothing more than a contradiction.

James Jean-Pierre

The ignorant learn from none, the simple learn from some, the intelligent learn from many, but the enlightened learn from all.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have power, be just; wealth, be generous; knowledge, be wise; titles, be humble; and life, be grateful.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Thoughts can only hurt you with your permission, feelings can only wound you with your consent, experiences can only damage you with your authorization; life can only ruin you with your approval.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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