Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 3

Empower your children - Allow self-discovery and self-awareness (their own key to success), Facilitate an environment for learning through experience (practice of knowledge acquired). Remember, this exploration will take place whether you approve or not – it’s inevitable, that’s why YOU MUST be in charge of providing awareness and exposure to improve the quality of decisions made during exploration and experimentation.
Archibald Marwizi
Your leadership principles give that unique character to your leadership brand. When all your responses, decisions, choices and leadership practices are filtered through your well defined principles, you have automatically connected yourself to making the success of your leadership excellence brand more deliberate.
Archibald Marwizi
The problem, of course, was that people did not seem to understand the difference between right and wrong. They needed to be reminded about this, because if you left it to them to work out for themselves, they would never bother. They would just find out what was best for them, and then they would call that the right thing.
Alexander McCall Smith
Love is the softest rose in the soul's garden.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Whether the glass is half empty or half full, you have the power to fill it up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Realise your Stewardship role as a parent – you raise children to offer a quality gift to society. Even your spouse should not be treated as an object or possession you own; support them to be the best of what they were created to be. Do your part and trust God for the rest. If you have empowered them, trust them to be responsible.
Archibald Marwizi
It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one's anger.
Alexander McCall Smith
Don't burn your bridges until you build better ones.
Matshona Dhliwayo
His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven. But now it was the night before his birthday, and barring some cosmic disaster, the advent of some unexpected black hole into which the earth might be sucked, with the attendant reversal or suspension of time, in very few hours he would be waking up to a world in which he was numbered among the seven-year-olds.
Alexander McCall Smith
The past only dies so the future can live.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
He who traps mice should not boast to he who hunts lions.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A ship will never sink if God is on it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To realize your greatest strengths, you must first overcome your greatest weaknesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love affords you these three things: smiles, hugs, and kisses. Joy affords you these three things: pleasure, laughter, and good memories.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Words are more forgettable, but the emotional effects they have on the person hearing them stay engraved in his or her memory.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Cowards shrink from challenges, weaklings flee from them, and warriors wink at them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't ask for a girl's hand in marriage and forget to ask for her leg too.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Two hands cut down a few trees, but one matchstick clears a forest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One good friend is better than a thousand acquaintances.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpieces.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A star is a rock that could no longer hide its beauty from the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Utilizing all of your mind is a step towards brilliance. Utilizing all of your heart is a step towards excellence.Utilizing all of your soul is a step towards nobleness. Utilizing all of your mind, heart, and soul is a step towards greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Today’s caterpillars are tomorrow’s butterflies.
Matshona Dhilwayo
Time is your acquaintance. Life is your friend. Death is your opponent. Eternity is your companion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The role of political leadership in any society will remain critical to the socio-economic progression of the world. It is however worrying to see the growing number of people, including the youth, getting into politics for economic gain and not for a cause. This, inter alia, is the contaminated seed and eventual root of chronic corruption because such leadership will always be selfishly seeking gain and enrichment from their roles and offices.
Archibald Marwizi
Let them judge you, but remain virtuous.Let them criticize you, but remain wise.Let them misunderstand you, but remain kind. Let them hate you, but remain exceptional.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Some people are known, they have the platform and presence, but still remain irrelevant. They know you and what you do, but they don’t need you or your offering. I see too many people with a platform but without substance, again this is not sustainable. Lack of substance can only relegate your talent or skill towards the league of the mediocre, if at all you become much by superficial branding then you will become the best of the worst. You don't have what it takes but you depend on your ability to sell substandard offerings to the market. It will not last for long, but quickly become irrelevant.
Archibald Marwizi
A rainbow earns its colors in the storm.
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
Losing one feather does not prevent a bird from flying.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A smile is the most affordable way of giving someone an expensive gift.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Success is yours if you are willing to pursue it to the ends of the earth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats.
Archibald Marwizi
Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To change your life, love yourself. To change your community, love others. To change the world, love everyone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Who are you’ is a question of both substance and position. In other words, what is the authority of your voice, service, product or performance in relation to the needs of those you intend to serve? Secondly, have you defined and demystified yourself enough to be accepted as the solution of choice?
Archibald Marwizi
When night comes do not despair; rejoice instead and say to yourself, “At least now I can see the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Just imagine the strides Africa would have made if all the resources being channeled towards conflict resolution were going into construction of power generation plants and irrigation capacity. Can’t we promote our own peace? What are we doing to seriously focus on other eco-friendly energy sources like wind and solar?
Archibald Marwizi
A foolish son has no advantage over an orphan.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Water wrestles great opponents,but has no hands,and tramples great rivals,but has no feet.It slips through our fingers,but can swallow entire towns.Wind also slips through our fingers,but can swallow entire cities.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change by using it to their advantage.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower does not lose its beauty because it grew on concrete.
Matshona Dhliwayo
God cannot resist love for He cannot resist Himself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Skill is the bridge between success and great success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The world rewards you for what is in your mind, the universe rewards you for what is in your heart, and the Heavens reward you for what is in your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Anything built on doubt is rocky.Anything built on fear is shaky.Anything built on hate is unsteady.Anything built on wisdom is trustworthy.Anything built on faith is sturdy.Anything built on love is mighty.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bow is useless without an arrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Women are like shadows; when you chase them, they run from you; when you run from them, they chase you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose does not lose sleep because it was mocked by weeds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Rise above your fears and you rise above your world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to know how good a tree is, examine how many birds flock to feed off of its fruit.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Rain does not fall on one tree.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest you is found in the kindest you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Harsh winters precede pleasant springs.
Matshona Dhliwayo