Life Lessons Quotes - Page 8

Your mind has the intellect to lift the world,your heart has the wisdom to better the world, and your soul has the genius to elevate the world.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The greatest weight a bird gives up when preparing to fly is fear.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Two minds are smarter than one.Two hands are stronger than one.Two hearts are mightier than one.Two souls are greater than one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your feet may be small, but travel much. Your hands may be little, but conquer much. Your eyes may be tiny, but perceive much. Your ears may be modest, but heed much.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The wise are like a river; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, treasure God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The distance between two minds is understanding.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break.

Matshona Dhliwayo

At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

A little stupid is like a little forest fire. If you happen upon some stupid, please stomp it out before it spreads.

Quentin R. Bufogle

Number 1 is perhaps not the ideal. It is there for the one behind, the number 2. Mr 2 would learn a whole lot more being who he is than ever being Mr 1. Perhaps there is more to the phrase ‪#‎OddOneOut‬.

In today's life, Luxury is Time and Space.

We grew up on the same street,You and me.We went to the same schools,Rode the same bus,Had the same friends,And even shared spaghettiWith each other's families.And though our roots belong toThe same tree,Our branches have grownIn different directions.Our tree,Now resembles a thousandOther treesIn a sea of a trillionOther treesWith parallel destiniesAnd similar dreams.You cannot envy the branchThat grows biggerFrom the same seed,And you cannotBlame it on the sun's direction.But you still compare us,As if we're still those twoKids at the parkSlurping down slushies andEating ice cream.Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)

When you feel good about your life at all times, you feel like living in your dreams. But sometimes, people around you pull you out to see the face of reality.

Taranpreet Singh

What is life but an ongoing war?

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Police officers are among the most corrupt people that I have encountered in life.

The most reliable friend you have is your shadow.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love knows the way because love is the way.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be like the sun; bear with those in the dark, but keep shining your light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The only place you will find love before sacrifice is in the dictionary.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Be calm when your wife yells at you, calmer when she chastens you, but be terrified when she ignores you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love only knocks on your heart’s door when certain it has the right address.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you are sad, love will make you happy; afraid, love will make you brave; weak, love will make you strong; and broken, love will make you whole.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Give of yourself to others and others will give of themselves to you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Jealousy says, “Compete with each other.” Envy says, “Destroy each other.” Empathy says, “Help each other.” Love says, “Empower each other.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.

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

The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love.

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

See what love sees. Hear what love hears. Say what love says. Do what love does.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is loud; the soul hears it, even if the universe is deaf.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Regard those who respect you.Esteem those who honor you.Cherish those who love you.Reward those who adore you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Anger is loud, rage is deafening, and wrath is thunderous; only love can silence them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn a lot. Laugh a lot. Love a lot. Live a lot.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The only weapon you are allowed to kill anyone with is kindness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

For every God-given goal, He gives grace to accomplish it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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