Quotes from Matshona Dhliwayo
True riches belong to those who shun false ones.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't waste time watering a weed hoping to transform it into a flower.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Cheerfulness will help you draw strangers, cleverness will help gain acquaintances, faithfulness will help you keep companions, and kindness will help you multiply friends.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree's greatest strength lies.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn what you can, teach what you know, live how you ought.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don't believe in ghosts.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If you try to extinguish the light of one who shines like the sun you will get burned.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.
- Matshona Dhliwayo