Quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo

If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.

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

The say money talks, but Ive seen it sing, and even seen it dance.

When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.

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

People can hurt you, but you must still love. People can betray you, but you can still trust. People can put you down, but you must still rise. People can oppose you, but you can still prevail.

If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line.

The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns.

When you wrestle with life, your heart inevitably becomes a warrior; when you wrestle with death, your soul inevitably becomes a conqueror.

The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death.

Dont water anything that you dont want to grow in your life.

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

When turbulence hits your sails remind yourself it is an opportunity to get to the shore quicker.

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

Beautiful gifts sometimes come wrapped in ugly paper.

I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.

Life is the song you dance to when reality sings.

Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.

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

Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.