Quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo

Teach yourself. Help yourself. Improve yourself. Enrich yourself.

If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay positive in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay positive in impossible situations, you are great.

No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart’s safe.

The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.

A lion is not afraid of walking alone, even if the whole jungle is pursuing it.

If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey.

The ugliest storms paint the loveliest rainbows.

Water drops erode mountains not because of their size, but their persistence.

The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.

Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.

An archer must never blame a target for missing it.

Learn, only to live. Live, only to learn.

You can paint the whole sky black, but that won’t keep stars from shinning.

If your greatest wish is to be happy, you are clever; if it is to make others happy, you are virtuous; but if it is to make yourself and others happy, you are wise.

The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late.

If there is wisdom in your mind, prove it; joy in your heart, share it; love in your soul, show it; good in your life, impart it.

A small sharp axe clears a forest quicker than a big blunt one.

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.

A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.