Wisdom Quote Quotes - Page 3

Life is a sweet sour adventure. When you want to go it becomes sweet, when you remain, it becomes sour

Bangambiki Habyarimana

The problem with satisfaction is it's a bottomless pit

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Forget about the great astounding victory. Focus on winning small victories every day, the final victory will come by itself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there

Bangambiki Habyarimana

The greatest wisdom is to be happy

Bangambiki Habyarimana

We are looking for value, guidance, advice, inspiration; for someone to show us the way. When we find him, he is our hero

Bangambiki Habyarimana

True understanding lies beyond the desert

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Keeping hatred against someone is like helping him to torture you

Bangambiki Habyarimana

You are what you believe

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Experience is hard to acquire. Only the wise acquire it

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A good man can be destroyed by the association with men of evil character. A wise man can learn from them

Bangambiki Habyarimana

If there is no reward, there is no reason to run

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Know the laws before you break them

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Please others and you please yourself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Calm is the best revenge

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Some people have the license to sin: Soldiers, to kill; politicians, writers, priests, businessmen, married man and women, to lie; and married couples to have sex

Bangambiki Habyarimana

You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster

Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you want an abscess to cure you must press it hard

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind

True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave

Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you think you can't, you're wrong and right

Bangambiki Habyarimana

People spend their entire lives searching the world for the pieces that will make them whole, yet those pieces are only found within them.

By the time most people say 'I'm sorry' it is already too late.

The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls

Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.

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

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

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

Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you venture to be a sageLet your virtues subside your rageFor deep wisdom you’ll be veneratedLet cold veins feel blood cells generated

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Marrying a stupid person is a reflection of your thoughtlessness.Marrying a clever person is a reflection of your intelligence.Marrying a wise person is a reflection of your shrewdness.Marrying a virtuous person is a reflection of your uprightness.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is not the size of the candle that matters, but the size of its light.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When you have nothing, be hopeful; when you have little, be grateful; when you have much, be sensible; when you have everything, be humble.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If you try to test a river’s depths with both feet, you will drown.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Cockiness – the state subjective or intuitive state of self-assurance – is a sign of ignorance. Maturity comes with encountering the horrible and learning about what a person can withstand.

Kilroy J. Oldster

An angry wife can be more frightening than an army of disgruntled soldiers.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is in vain to stone the sky, no matter how big the rock is.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The mind speaks, thought it does not have lips. The heart moves, though it does not have feet. The soul rises, though it does not have wings.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If a tree bears sweet fruit, birds have many reasons to visit it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Water has no mouth, but swallows many. Light has no hands, but touches many. Wind has no feet, but carries many. Darkness has no teeth, but devours many.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The mind is a temple of knowledge, the heart is a temple of understanding, and the soul is a temple of wisdom; together they are a temple of enlightenment.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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