Top 500 Matshona Dhliwayo Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “Don’t let people draw you into their darkness; pull them into your light.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

452. “Birds fly more efficiently than aeroplanes. Nature is the superior engineer.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

453. “Feed your enemies with a long spoon so they can’t bite your hand.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

454. “You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

455. “The world’s deepest place is not the ocean, but the human heart.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

456. “Thinkers are leaders and true leaders are thinkers.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

457. “You climb mountains with your feet, but can only move them with your soul.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

458. “To be a good student teach. To be a great master learn.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

459. “If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else’s.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

460. “Truth is like a rose; you have to love it with all of its thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

461. “It is only in deep waters that a fish knows how strong it is.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

462. “It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

463. “Love defies the laws of gravity.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

464. “When you are ahead of your time, it is inevitable you will anger some people for leaving them behind.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

465. “One who sharpens his sword before sharpening his mind has already been conquered by ignorance.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

466. “Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

467. “When intelligence shuts a door, wisdom opens a window.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

468. “You can run out of luck, but never run out of God.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

469. “You can shoot a million arrows at the sun, but not even one will pierce it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

470. “A slave is one who sells his soul to save his life. A master is one who gives his life to save his soul.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

471. “Success lies behind fear.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

472. “Love is blind, but lust has many eyes.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

473. “Your thoughts influence you, your words move others, but it is your deeds that will change the world.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

474. “You are as the sun; born to rise, even if the world resents you for towering above it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

475. “Chase your dreams and your nightmares will grow tired of chasing you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

476. “The most beautiful temple in the universe is your soul; that is why God wants to dwell in it.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

477. “Death offers you thorns, eternity offers you roses, and life offers you both.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

478. “When there is no peace in your soul there is no peace in your heart, when there is no peace in your heart there is no peace in your mind, when there is no peace in your mind there is no peace in your life, and when there is no peace in your life there is no peace in your world.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

479. “Knowledge without wisdom is like a lion without teeth.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

480. “Reality is the ocean, knowledge is the ship, wisdom is the captain, and ignorance is the storm.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

481. “Love heals, even when you are angry; hate harms, even when you are happy.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

482. “Respect your haters; they are always the first to show you that you are better than them.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

483. “You live for those you carry in your heart, but would only die for those you carry in your soul.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

484. “A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

485. “God will only push you off a cliff if He’s going to give you wings to fly.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

486. “When surrounded by darkness your only duty is to shine.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

487. “Love teaches you how to live. Life teaches you how to love.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

488. “Never envy anyone’s gifts, or you will become a prisoner of their success.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

489. “You can see truth with both eyes closed, and yet fail to hear it with both ears open.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

491. “Wisdom at the bottom of a well sees further than intelligence at the rooftop.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

492. “What you do for others today you have done for yourself tomorrow.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

493. “You fall because you are human, and rise because you are divine.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

494. “A student’s wisdom is more valuable than a professor’s knowledge.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

495. “Before you look for dirt in people, look for treasure.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

496. “Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

497. “The road to success is paved with doubters and haters.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

498. “To live a little learn a little. To live a lot learn a lot.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

499. “Knowledge is the way. Wisdom is the path. Understanding is the guide. Enlightenment is the destination.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

500. “A star doesn’t have to announce its arrival; it just shows up and shines.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo