Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 19

A lion will only retreat if you stare it in the eyes; likewise, so will fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the table for clients to read while waiting for their appointment. On the cover there had been a picture of a well-known politician, a man famous for his rudeness and aggression. She had looked at the eyes--the piercing, accusing eyes, and had seen only an impenetrable, defensive anger. Nothing--no forced smiles nor rehearsed protestation of concern, could cancel out the cold selfishness of those eyes.
Alexander McCall Smith
No matter how much I care for you I cannot grow for you, you have to do your own growing – it’s your personal responsibility. Make a plan on how you will get the skills and experience required to become a practitioner of note in your area of choice.
Archibald Marwizi
Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is
Doris Lessing
It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Light is formless, but pierces the eyes.Wisdom is formless, but pierces the mind.Faith is formless, but pierces the heart.Love is formless, but pierces the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A cowardly warrior is like a toothless lion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The earliest bird gets the worm only if the worm is stupid enough to show up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What is in great demand, but scarce, is expensive, but even when wisdom is not in demand it is priceless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The darker it gets, the brighter your dreams shine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To succeed and create change, you must be willing to take the risk, with an understanding of a number of key elements. Please begin to understand that an entrepreneurial spirit is not only essential in business enterprise. We all have a business to run in our different areas of specialty. Your life is your business and your family is your business – you have multiple businesses.
Archibald Marwizi
The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The quieter the mind the louder the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A mission without action is equally ineffective and futile as action without mission. Use the “power of precision,” and remember language shapes thought and thought shapes action.
Archibald Marwizi
Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is hard, she thought, it is hard for us to think of people who dislike us because none of us, in our heart, believes that we deserve the hatred of others.
Alexander McCall Smith
To enter the door of greatness you need the key of faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What you seek for others you find for yourself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is easier to wipe a thousand tears from your eyes than to wipe a single tear from your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Alignment of vision, mission, values and attitudes need to be matched between you and those you choose to surround yourself with. The cost of training or replacing will be very minimal and less painful if recruitment, selection and positioning are done well. This applies even to general employment processes, whether at leadership or staff levels.
Archibald Marwizi
Three quarters of faith is boldness.Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence.Three quarters of love is kindness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The moon only dares compete with the stars when the sun is in its corner.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest gift you can give to someone is your heart; because when you give your heart, you are giving your most prized possession.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Worry soils, even the purest mind.Envy poisons, even the purest heart.Greed sullies, even the purest soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The poorest people sometimes have the richest minds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Rainbows earn their brightest colors in the storm.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your mind shines brightest when you enlighten others; your heart, when you encourage others; your soul, when you elevate others; and your life, when you empower others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The whole point in moving forward is to leave things behind. Once you look back, you stop moving forward. Understanding this makes you move on easier.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Embrace all. Help some. Trust few. Harm none.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Healthy trees bear healthy fruit.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great feuds often need very few words to resolve them. Disputes, even between nations, between peoples, can be set to rest with simple acts of contrition and corresponding forgiveness, can so often be shown to be based on nothing much other than pride and misunderstanding, and the forgetting of the humanity of the other—and land, of course.
Alexander McCall Smith
But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.
Alexander McCall Smith
A bird does not fly because of the wind around it, but because of the strength within it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don’t believe in ghosts.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Instead he was grabbing at whatever was available in this system that no longer held the old predictable relationship between effort and result as true
Panashe Chigumadzi
There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times when you should do exactly the opposite, when you should urge people to cry, to start the healing that sometimes only tears can bring. But if there was a place for tears of relief, there might even be a place for tears of pride[.]
Alexander McCall Smith
When bad things happen to you, become wiser, not bitter.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are able to catch a glimpse of our own country with foreign eyes.. the best we can hope for is that a kindly friend from another culture will enable us to look at our culture with dispassionate eyes.
Doris Lessing
One does not become strong lifting feathers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The schools wear the blank faces of war buildings, their windows blown blind by rocks or guns or mortars. Their plaster is an acne of bullet marks. The huts and small houses crouch open and vulnerable; their doors are flimsy pieces of plyboard or sacks hanging and lank. Children and chickens and dogs scratch in the red, raw soil and stare at us as we drive through their open, eroding lives.
Alexandra Fuller
It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin.
Alexander McCall Smith
A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Mr. Gweta and his daughter were the cosmetics camouflaging an infected blackhead. The rest of the ugliness ran deep into a world where plants ate people and botanists lay at the bottom of the food chain.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Herbs may be bitter, but cure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The best chapters in your life story are written by love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Gray hairs signify old age, not wisdom.Muscles signify strength, not health.Laughter signifies amusement, not joy.Weeping signifies pain, not weakness.Smiling signifies courteousness, not love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is easier to move mountains using God's hands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith and optimism are cousins.
Matshona Dhliwayo