Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 23

If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never give a negative thought an inch or it will take a mile.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You have beautiful ears if you listen to the plight of others,beautiful hands if you carry the burdens of others,beautiful eyes if you look out for others,beautiful feet if you visit others,a beautiful tongue if you encourage others,a beautiful mind if you enlighten others,a beautiful heart if you comfort others,and a beautiful soul if you love others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When the tables are turned,whoever was full becomes hungry.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Change is a friend to a life with a vision, but an enemy to an aimless person.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Trees generously share their fruit.Bees generously share their honey.Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If God had a wife, He would be in trouble too if He dodged His chores.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray patiently.Pray purposefully.Pray painstakingly.Pray perfectly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Nonetheless, I know where I'm coming from,I've got an idea on where I'm going,And with the way things are going,I'm just glad to be me.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Timeless wisdom brings timeless blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You can switch off all the lights, but that won't stop the sun from rising.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You must succeed! Not by accident, but deliberately! You are able to succeed – now you must be willing to succeed and this must reflect in the way you spend your life.
Archibald Marwizi
Cease from envy, prejudice and unhealthy competitiveness. Never abandon your own mission and brand to pursue the seemingly exciting mission or vision of another.
Archibald Marwizi
Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When perplexed, God appears to you in the form of wisdom; when troubled, in the form of peace; when sad, in the form of joy; when heartbroken, in the form of love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Falling in love is accidental, staying in love is intentional, and growing in love is delightful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Change in leadership brands must be influenced and proactively effected at a personal level, it can never be forced from outside with sustainable effectiveness. Saddam Hussein, Muammar al Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak are all political trophies, yet the effects of the military or “civil” initiatives that toppled them, are nothing to be proud of considering what continues to happen in countries like Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria, after the use of force to bring political change.
Archibald Marwizi
If the grass is greener on the other side, start watering your own.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest universe is the one within you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The desert is harsh, but persevering flowers flourish.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A storm is never quiet because it is always calling out to the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A river continues to flow despite losing a few drops at each turn.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The journey to greatness is a marathon, not a hundred meter dash.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The better the wife,the happier the man.The happier the man,the happier the wife.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The world has enough light from the sun, but not from your mind; and the universe has enough light from the stars, but not from your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You become greater than what you conquer within.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The cream rises to the top, even if sour.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fish are small, but do not drown in the sea. Ships are big, but sink in the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love treats its enemies better than hate treats its friends.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot wake up one who refuses to open his eyes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Defining what success means to you requires important meetings – board meetings with yourself. When the “me, myself and I” committee meets and passes transformational resolutions.
Archibald Marwizi
Set goals,pursue them,achieve them,and then surpass them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is never a crime to steal the heart of someone you love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Programming means your mindset, thought processes and frame of reference must be correctly wired and mapped to enable the incubation of thoughts and ideas that lead to success. Your subconscious mind is key in this process and will always look for ways and means, night and day, to fulfil and implement the thoughts that are always fed into it. It is your faithful servant. I call it the connection between God and man. It is an essential part of the human spirit.
Archibald Marwizi
You worry less about misplacing a star when the whole sky is yours.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the luckiest tenant in the world, living in the hearts of men and women rent free.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Step up your game and success will step up to you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A life without a vision is like a kite let loose; it is directed by the forces that be, never giving even the slightest of resistance to life's pressures, eventually ending up far away from home (that comfortable place).
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Most entertainers and celebrities realize the influencing power they possess. The sad reality is that those in the know tend to utilise that power with a lack of mission, beliefs and values which could translate to a positive impact of their talent on the lives as well as missions of those who form their fan-base. Their agenda tends to be self-centred but it can change.
Archibald Marwizi
Certain aspects of dying are still a mystery to me now, but as I grow and study life more, the end of my life becomes more of a certain truth.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Never allow temporary defeat to keep you from lasting victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love will always be blind, but will never be deaf.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot fast-forward time, you cannot rewind it, and you cannot pause it; you can only waste or benefit from it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Running and chanting, the word change in the air like it's something you can grab and put in your mouth and sink your teeth into.
NoViolet Bulawayo
At a leadership level, there is need to become aware of the realities required to lead and deliver value to people and groups, some who might have values and beliefs that significantly differ from your own. The ability to objectively strike this balance will indicate your level of leadership maturity.
Archibald Marwizi
Guide impactfully.Guide impressively.Guide intuitively.Guide incredibly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails.
Matshona Dhliwayo
That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure—the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from the preface; on writing for people around the world]
Alexander McCall Smith
Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
Alexander McCall Smith
If you have her mind, you have her for a moment; if you have her heart, you have her for a while; if you have her soul, you have her for a lifetime.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you teach a wolf how to hunt, it will reward you by devouring you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We act out our lives to a soundtrack, thought Isabel, the music that becomes, for a spell, out favourite and is listened to again and again until it stands for the time itself. But that was about all the scripting that we achieved; the rest, for most of us, was extemporising.
Alexander McCall Smith
Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known
Alexander McCall Smith