Top 500 Matshona Dhliwayo Quotes (2026 Update)
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451. “If you know who you are, no one can convince you to be who you are not.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

452. “If you don’t know your worth, people will put a cheap price tag on you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

453. “Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

454. “To be knowledgeable, sit before scholars; to be wise, sit before life.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

455. “A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won’t have to beg anyone to follow you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

456. “Don’t run with the crowd; fly with the stars.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

457. “A single lion is greater than a thousand hyenas.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

458. “Love is blind despite the world’s attempt to give it eyes.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

459. “Don’t let people draw you into their darkness; pull them into your light.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

465. “A fish will never realize its potential until you throw it in water.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

467. “You were born to dream. You were born to strive. You were born to conquer. You were born to rise.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

469. “Be yourself; you have nothing more valuable to offer the world than the original you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

472. “If people haven’t walked a mile in your shoes, don’t listen to them if they mock the sores on your feet.”

— 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. “If your eyes are the window to your soul, your smile is the gateway to my universe.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

479. “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

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

483. “Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams; lions have little in common with sheep.”

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Matshona Dhliwayo

496. “A cactus is a desert’s rose.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

497. “Become braver, stronger, wiser, kinder, and you will become better.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

498. “Never let temporary darkness rob you of permanent light.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

499. “The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

500. “The highest form of intelligence is wisdom; the highest form of wisdom is love.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo