Wise Quotes - Page 20

Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination.

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

If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Teach the ignorant. Study the wise. Avoid the foolish. Embrace the enlightened.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn from acquaintances, and you are clever; from friends, and you are intelligent; from enemies, and you are shrewd; but learn from all, and you are wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great.

Matshona Dhliwayo

At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Planting your own garden is better than waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Matshona Dhliwayo

An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to help an enemy than to harm a friend.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A wolf raised in a jungle is fiercer than a lion reared in a circus.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Don’t judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace.

Matshona Dhliwayo

The ocean does not lose its splendor because it lost a few drops.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be wise enough to learn from the past, shrewd enough to capitalize on the present, and clever enough to prepare for the future.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge is the eldest daughter of wisdom.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Wisdom has a hundred eyes to see opportunities, courage has a hundred feet to seek opportunities, and strength has a hundred arms to seize opportunities.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Do not curse the well that quenches your thirst.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

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

A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.

Matshona Dhliwayo

You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it.

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

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

More than being human, we need peace and love.More than being strong and capable, we need compassion.More than being clever, we need kindness and gentleness.But where are all these sense of humanity?Where is the love that we have for human life and nature?Where is the peace that we once had?What about our dreams, dream of a better world?Little children are crying, am beginning to feel guilty.Where is that sense of brotherhood?Where is the compassion?What about our faith, have we lost trust in God?

Nurudeen Ushawu

If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed.

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

Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.

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

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

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

In calm waters you still find sharks.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One fish in your net is better than a thousand in the ocean.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One who cannot swim must not blame the water.

Matshona Dhliwayo

No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Be sure to bend but never break

The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art.

Accept where you are, accept what you have, accept who you are ~ do what you can with all of that and let it be enough.

The star rises from the east. Watch out! Your star will guide you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Decisions are the privilege we’ve been granted to have a hand in penning the script of our lives. And in the writing, the question is not the availability of the paper or the pen. The question is the wisdom to use them rightly.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

For all these stars,nothing is new.They’ve seen all kinds of warsand miracles, too.They know the messengers with their holy bookswill smile and wash their hands in blood.They know the politicians with their good lookswill make the poor eat pies of mud.They’ve seen the Earth freeze and then burn with greed.They’ve seen the treesand the seas emptied.Yet, you won’t hear their sneerswhen a man arrivesand, having experienced a number of years,proclaims: 'I have lived!'Because nothing is new under these stars:the lies, the love, the memories and scars, the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true,the families, the friends, none of it is new.All of it—even the me and you.

In today's world hunger for sanity seems to be more intense than our hunger for food.

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