1. Invest in your future, not in your past.
2. Use the bricks critics throw at you to build your palace.
3. You don’t win battles you walk away from.
4. Work eagerly. Work effectually. Work energetically. Work enduringly.
5. The prettiest flower still had to struggle to surface.
6. Think twice as much as others. Study twice as much as others. Work twice as much as others. Succeed twice as much as others.
7. If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.
8. A flower can only grow through concrete if it believes in itself, not its obstacles.
9. Dream more. Plan more. Work more. Achieve more.
10. If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.
11. Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence.
12. Skill is in your mind. Talent is in your heart. Genius is in your soul.
13. The path to mediocrity is wide; the path to brilliance is narrow, and the path to genius is hidden; few find it.
14. Small miracles begin in the mind, big miracles begin in the heart, and great miracles begin in the soul.
15. Your mind can help you do the unimaginable. Your hands can help you get the unattainable. Your heart can help you accomplish the unachievable. Your soul can help you create the inconceivable. Your God can help you achieve the unthinkable.
As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness,
inside of everyone is the power to rise from mediocrity.
~Matshona Dhliwayo
