Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 16

There is no point knowing your mission if you cannot see the area of need for that mission.
Archibald Marwizi
Use the arrows failure throws at you to hunt for success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Make your mark now.Make your mark today.Make your mark forever.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you strike the shepherd you strike the sheep.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest weight a bird gives up when preparing to fly is fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Vaida planted her shoulders into the back of her chair and slid her lower body towards the edge of the seat. The fabric of her retracting skirt increased the protrusion of her legs. When she was in position, Vaida made a fine adjustment to achieve the desired view.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.
Paula Hawkins
Strength conquers some, might conquers many, power conquers numerous, but love conquers all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the brightest star in the soul's sky.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The hungriest wolf leads the pack.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Busy hands achieve more than idle tongues.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When a woman misses you, you have her mind; when she cares for you, you have her heart, when she loves you, you have her soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who takes the road less traveled earns the rewards most missed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Small steps of faith add up to great leaps of success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I remember all of it, not because I meditate on it. No. I remember it because with each step I make toward my goals, I am reminded of how they said I couldn't do it. The more I achieve, the more they are proved wrong, in my mind. It's like motivation. Attacks on your dreams are never forgotten because they become your fuel.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Big dreamers achieve more than big doubters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One friend in a storm is worth more than a thousand friends in sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The sky’s dangers offer the eagle more opportunities than the nest’s comfort.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Professor Khupe rubbed his hand along the sand dunes of her windswept form. The static charge made her skin feel like the surface of a cactus. He recoiled. How he wished he had gone into the priesthood when he had had the chance. Embracing celibacy was far easier than battling the consequences of shunning it.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
You cannot bury someone with the Shereketa spirit for long. Even if they are thrown into problems, they will rise back up.
Archibald Marwizi
Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If your soul mate comes with too much baggage, help her unpack it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge is air to the wise.Wisdom is poison to a fool.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One key habit I adopted is washing or sanitizing of hands every time, especially after using the toilet, before eating or handling food and whenever I go to visit someone in hospital and after leaving the hospital. Also use proper protective clothing in other circumstances like assisting ailing relatives and friends with communicable diseases.
Archibald Marwizi
The bird and the elephant drink from the same river.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you invite a snake into your home,do not be surprised if it bites you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The hen that lays the most eggs deserves the most food.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle.
Alexander McCall Smith
If you catch poisonous fish, throw it back into the sea.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great tests precede great blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The early lion gets the best game.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The Excellence Manifesto #2I will resist impatience.I will resist deceitfulness.I will resist bitterness.I will resist ignorance.I will resist foolishness.I will resist pridefulness.I will resist unrighteousness.I will conquer laziness.I will subdue indifference.I will beat incompetence.I will defeat averageness.I will overcome fearfulness.I will transcend weakness.I will quash unproductiveness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Development of states, urbanization, mechanization and industrialisation have all brought phenomenal strides to growth and prosperity of economies and their populace. They have also brought with them the insatiable need for energy resources with the related offspring of instability, conflict, war and corruption.
Archibald Marwizi
Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.
Roy Bennett
It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The deep desire for success must cause a dream to rise to the surface and inspire you to action. The dream must be supported in the physical and natural realm to help you believe more and more in the possibility of its realization.
Archibald Marwizi
A fish is a genius in water, an eagle is a genius in air, a fox is a genius on land, and a sage is a genius in life. 
Matshona Dhliwayo
An original pebble is better than a counterfeit diamond.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pleasure can turn the body into a slave.Desire can turn the mind into a fool.Passion can turn the heart into a beast.Love can turn the soul into an angel.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Yet Nathan appreciated being alone as he sipped his cold glass of beer. It gave him time to think. In the next thirty minutes or so, the flight he was waiting for would land and his day would begin. It was autumn in the capital, and the clear skies created an illusion of a city that was at peace with itself.
Marko Phiri
Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Beautiful trees sometimes bear bitter fruit.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You spend the beginning part of your life with your mother, so love her; the middle part of your life with your girlfriend, so care for her; and the end part of your life with your wife, so adore her.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Thoughts can be such slippery things sometimes,Very hard to handle.But to a well-trained mind,They are easy to bind
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pearls from the soul are more precious than diamonds from the mine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life’s storms rage, you do.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?
Archibald Marwizi
The soul's garden is watered by love's rivers.
Matshona Dhliwayo