Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 20

Long ago I decided that at a political meeting the truth usually comes out in just such a speech or a remark ignored at the time because its tone is not that of the meeting. Humorous, or satirical, or even angry or bitter — yet it’s the truth, and all the long speeches and contributions are nonsense.
Doris Lessing
Love is the soul's symphony.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Leave no room for fear and excuses. Be strong in spirit and possess unwavering convictions. Choose to be an optimist and commit to succeed.
Archibald Marwizi
Kindness beautifies your words.Love sweetens your words.Wisdom empowers your words.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Greatness in your body is strength.Greatness in your mind is wisdom.Greatness in your heart is faith.Greatness in your soul is love.Greatness in your life is God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Happy is he who marries the woman he wants, happier is he who marries the woman he needs, and happiest is he who marries the woman he wants and needs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Believe in yourself, your abilities and your own potential. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. You are worthy of all that you dream of and hope for.
Roy Bennett
A tree's beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You have to fight great battles to guard your mind, extraordinary battles to protect your heart, and remarkable battles to defend your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If records refuse to be broken, shatter them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Making success deliberate means that you must make success a habit; and habits are a product of the subconscious mind. We call them habits because we can actually do them without being conscious of what we are doing. Things we end up doing without sitting down to think because we have done them so many times, thought about them so many times they are now imprinted onto our subconscious mind. If we could think about success so much, practice it so much more, then we imprint thoughts and seeds of success onto our subconscious that it becomes a habit.
Archibald Marwizi
Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
Roy Bennett
The leadership challenge for celebrities and those in the limelight includes turning focus from being self-centred to influencing vulnerable and gullible youngsters, especially teenagers, in a positive way; realising that it is possible to entertain and increase following without promoting societal vices like drug & alcohol abuse, irresponsible sexual behaviour, prejudice of all kinds, criminal heroism, gangsterism and all forms of violence.
Archibald Marwizi
Dream the impossible.See the impossible.Pursue the impossible.Achieve the impossible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Professor, when people say such things after impossibility smacks them in the face, we call it denial
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
Bertie stared at his mother. She spoils things, he thought. All she ever does is spoil things. He had not started this conversation, and it was not his fault that they were now talking about Grey Owl. He sounded rather a nice man to Bertie. Any why should he not dress up in feathers and live in the forests if that was what he wanted to do? It was typical of his mother to try to spoil Grey Owl's fun.
Alexander McCall Smith
In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Tsitsi and the rest of the nation who now found themselves degreed and broke, her parents and the parents of the nation with degreed children and still broke, had thought-convinced themselves-that the poverty of their lives could be eliminated by 'professionalisation'.
Panashe Chigumadzi
Have you positioned yourself to be reachable and accessible by those you seek to serve and make an impact on? Do they know where and how to find you, either physically or in the cyber realm? If they cannot reach you for whatever reason, then you have not done your homework, because you are supposed to have a strategy to reach them before they can even look for you! Otherwise someone else will meet them along the way as they look for you.
Archibald Marwizi
People are different and it is this uniqueness that also makes it imperative for the definition or meaning of success be left to each individual to determine.
Archibald Marwizi
Faith turns mountains into pebbles. Fear turns pebbles into mountains.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have food on your table, clothes on your back, a roof on your head, and a dream in your heart, you have everything you need in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The easiest way to be the prettiest girl at a party is to rig the guest list.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Turn your failures into lessons, your obstacles into opportunities, your tragedies into triumphs, and in no time you will turn your dreams into reality.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't take life for granted.Don't compare yourself to others.Don't run from your problems.Don't entertain negative people.Don't abuse your friendships.Don't hold onto the past.Don't throw away opportunities.Don't blame others for your failures.Don't quarrel over small issues.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The sharper the arrow the quicker the hunt.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We all know that it is women who take the decisions, but we have to let men think that the decisions are theirs. It is an act of kindness on the part of women.
Alexander McCall Smith
We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she ws in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeming to her interminable. If life had to be looked at in terms of high moments or peaks, then nothing had "happened" to her for a long time; and she could look forward to nothing but a dwindling away from full household activities and getting old.
Doris Lessing
She knew that she had a tendency to allow her mind to wander, but surely that's what made the world interesting. One thought led to another, one memory triggered another. How dull it would be, she thought, not to be reminded of the interconnectedness of everything, how dull for the present not to evoke the past, for here not to imply there.
Alexander McCall Smith
Justice is blind, but judges have eyes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You become the master of what you master.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You need to realize there will always be beliefs that seek to limit and others that seek to stretch you to your highest potential. Just because you cannot see or do something, does not mean it is not there or cannot be done.
Archibald Marwizi
If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Everyone should have a place in your heart, but only a special few should have a place in your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality.
Archibald Marwizi
The ostrich-approach of burying your head in the sand, when confronting your areas of weakness, becomes a self-set trigger for failure.
Archibald Marwizi
The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you light a fire, you cannot conceal the smoke.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.
Matshona Dhliwayo
At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Compassion is not weakness it's Christ-like
Lazarus Takawira
It’s a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruelty is at the root of life. And the reason why I have only given my attention to the heroic or the beautiful or the intelligent is because I won’t accept that injustice and the cruelty, and so won’t accept the small endurance that is bigger than anything.
Doris Lessing
If you choose money over love, you will always be poor.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the light within you is greater than the darkness around you, you are a star.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fish cannot swim out of water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.
Alexander McCall Smith