Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 9

Stars shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Seeds are proof that God sometimes packages miracles in small things.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Make your mark now.Make your mark today.Make your mark forever.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Looking up at the stars only proves you admire them, but shining your light proves you are like them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like stars; when darkness tries to stop you from shining, shine all the more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you invest in your critics more than you invest in your dreams, you have successfully invested in your failure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You must not end your life because you failed an examination. Failing an examination or making a mistake does not make you a failure at life. The context of life is broader than that.
Archibald Marwizi
If your belief system, mission, values and attitude are poisoned or contaminated, then expect whatever you enjoy and perceive as success to be short-lived.
Archibald Marwizi
I'm strong beyond appearances reveal,But I'm human, and have weak moments still.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It was hard to disappear completely in Botswana, where there were fewer than two million people and where people had a healthy curiosity as to who was who and where people had come from. It was very difficult to be anonymous, even in Gaborone, as there would always be neighbours who would want to know exactly what one was doing and who one’s people had been.
Alexander McCall Smith
Without faith, it is impossible to succeed. It takes faith to grow, change or move out of your comfort zone. All external interventions become futile without the personal and internalized buy-in from the spirit-man who needs to change towards a given success destination.
Archibald Marwizi
Rainbows can’t rise without storms.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known
Alexander McCall Smith
If you can stay positive in bad situations, you are strong; if you can stay optimistic in hopeless situations, you are mighty; if you can stay hopeful in impossible situations, you are great.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We talk too much about love,but spend little time practising it.We debate too much about love,but spend little time utilizing it.We sermonize too much about love,but spend little time performing it.We write too much about love,but spend little time exercising it.We read too much about love,but spend little time implementing it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Courage lightens distress, hope alleviates grief, doubt aggravates affliction, fear worsens anguish, worry magnifies misery, and faith overthrows despair.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the volumes, but she knew that there were conversations within which she would never have the time to participate in. And that, of course, was the problem with any large collection of books, whether in a library or a bookshop: one might feel intimidated by the fact that there was simply too many to read and not know where to start.
Alexander McCall Smith
Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Brave cubs become fierce lions.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You become the master of what you master.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until it shines.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Understanding is important for studying,knowledge is important for teaching,and wisdom is important for living.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not plan to die, do not plan for the death of your name or your influence - rather, plan for the resting of a life well lived. Make an eternal mark.
Archibald Marwizi
It is in vain to try and kick the wind.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.
Archibald Marwizi
Y'know, there's a very interesting state of Anarchy up there. Everything's cracking up. That lot of tycoons; they don't believe in anything. They remind me of the white people in Central Africa. They used to say, 'Well, of course the blacks will drive us into the sea in fifty years time'. They used to say it cheerfully. In other words, 'We know that what we're doing is wrong.
Doris Lessing
Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the stormiest skies that eagles find their true calling.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you can't climb a tree, shake it, and its fruit will fall.
Matshona Dhliwayo
... eloquence is merely the product of intelligence. History is not shaped by men of genius. It is shaped by men of unwavering will. Men who focus whatever brains they have on the savvy application of power. In the end, brawn will always do the heavy lifting. Brawn will always win the war.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
When two souls are one, they hear each other, even in silence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A leadership comfort zone brings stagnancy, deprives one of innovation, stifles growth and frustrates both the leader and the team they lead. Your personal preferences like leadership style, communication style, prejudices, habits and mannerisms must be effectively managed so that they do not work against you. You have to be careful that your strengths do not end up becoming a hindering comfort zone. Seek to lead, driven by a cause.
Archibald Marwizi
Keep your eyes on your dreams, not on your haters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Selling and teaching demand that you develop your intrapersonal and interpersonal communication skills. You must be able to communicate with yourself as well as with others in a way that makes them buy your offering or benefit from the knowledge you want to impart.
Archibald Marwizi
Marry the one who laughs when you laugh, and you are clever; marry the one who cries when you cry, and you are intelligent, but marry the one who does both with you, and you are wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The intelligent are candles,the virtuous are torches,the wise are lamps,and the enlightened are stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The truth is that we all have what it takes to succeed and the fact is that not everyone will attain what they define success to be.
Archibald Marwizi
Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you face challenges, threats and prospects for failure, when you are out of money or job, when health is deteriorating and death seems to beckon – any hope for success against all those odds takes a solid empowering belief system that will believe – hope is still there. You must choose to adopt positive and empowering beliefs.
Archibald Marwizi
You can blow out a candle, but you cannot blow out a star.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Sages shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I appreciate the gesture, but you don't have to undress in order to apologize
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
A foolish son has no advantage over an orphan.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Strength comes from ignoring your critics.Power comes from mastering your fears.Fortitude comes from wrestling your opponents.Superiority comes from overcoming your losses.Greatness comes from conquering your weaknesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you invite a snake into your home,do not be surprised if it bites you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Water returns to the ocean. Light returns to the sun. Life returns to God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree’s nature does not change because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The universe offers you three things that money cannot buy: joy, love, and life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You become greater than what you conquer within.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the weapon of the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Soul power supersedes mind power.
Matshona Dhliwayo