Quotes from Matshona Dhliwayo
If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, treasure God.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
When life's great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Never give a negative thought an inch or it will take a mile.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
To see a man's true colors, tell him you're saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman's true colors, tell her you're poor.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.
- Matshona Dhliwayo