Wisdom Quotations Quotes

“A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A flower earns its honor in the dirt.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A strong mind is greater than a strong fist.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Knowledge is silver, but true wisdom is gold.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Knowledge is wealth, wisdom is treasure, understanding is riches, and ignorance is poverty.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is easier to teach saints than to learn from sinners.
It is easier to teach young students than to guide old fools.
It is easier to chastise saints than to caution sinners.
It is easier to shine in the dark than to glow in the light.
It is easier to multiply enemies than to accumulate friends.
It is easier to embrace your angel than to face your demons.
It is easier to fight an army of opinions than a single truth.
It is easier to rise with enemies than to fall with friends.
It is easier to fall into sin than to rise into virtue.
It is easier to rise from defeat than to rise from ignorance.
It is easier to survive a blow from a friend than a kiss from an enemy.
It is easier to conquer a thousand devils than a single angel.
It is easier to rise from love than to soar from hate.
It is easier to move mountains by faith than hills by your hands.
It is easier for stars to shine than for truth to glow.
It is easier to resist pain than to defy pleasure.
It is easier to appease the strong than to wrestle the mighty.
It is easier to tame the mind than to bridle the soul.
It is easier to fight an army than to grapple with your conscience.
It is easier to embrace the future than to understand the past.
It is easier for the sun to shine than for the moon to glow.
It is easier for small seeds to rise than for big trees to grow.
It is easier to heal a wounded heart than a broken soul.
It is easier to rule the mind than to conquer the soul.
It is easier to conquer your enemies than to master your fears.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The obsessive desire for a passionate relationship is usually a reflection of a lack of love for oneself. The manic need to pursue a passionate career is rooted in an intense unhappiness with present reality. They are a series of soothing thoughts and deflection methods and escape routes: The monster everyone’s running from, of course, is themselves.”
― Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Wisdom from a stranger is better than ignorance from a friend.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“True wisdom is like an ocean; the deeper you go the greater the treasures you'll find.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A lily is a water's diamond.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Rest is good, but laziness is not.
Labour is good, but slavery is not.
Wine is good, but drunkenness is not.
Food is good, but gluttony is not.
Money is good, but greed is not.
Wealth is good, but selfishness is not.
Beauty is good, but vanity is not.
Sex is good, but lust is not.
Pleasure is good, but sin is not.
Amusement is good, but decadence is not.
Fame is good, but self importance is not.
Confidence is good, but ego is not.
Eloquence is good, but flattery is not.
Charisma is good, but deception is not.
Ambition is good, but self interest is not.
Influence is good, but manipulation is not.
Authority is good, but tyranny is not.
Servitude is good, but bondage is not.
Admiration is good, but idolatry is not.
Law is good, but injustice is not.
Race pride is good, but bigotry is not.
Liberty is good, but recklessness is not.
Freedom is good, but unruliness is not.
Belief is good, but fanaticism is not.
Religion is good, but extremism is not.
Righteousness is good, but zealotry is not.
All is good, but in excess is not.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Become braver, stronger, wiser, kinder, and you will become better.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A rose, no matter how beautiful, still has to contend with thorns.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Love is my mother. Joy is my sister. Knowledge is brother. Wisdom is my soulmate.”
― 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 student's wisdom is more valuable than a professor's knowledge.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“It is better to seek light than to give into darkness.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“An archer must never blame a target for missing it.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A swan is beautiful, even if mocked by ugly ducks.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo