Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 35

A kiss is the easiest thing to throw at someone because its weight is love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A heart full of love is worth more than a purse full of coins.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Present trials strengthen you for future blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Some birds learn how to fly only after falling off of a cliff.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I can conquer my fears.I can overcome my weaknesses.I can master my failures.I can survive my disappointments.I can beat my obstacles.I can endure my trials.I am strong.I am able.I am gifted.I am special.I am exceptional.
Matshona Dhiliwayo
Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The size of the seed does not determine the size of the tree.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You change the future by taking control of the present. Know how to use your minutes and hours.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
True riches belong to those who shun false ones.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There is more fulfilment when sharing with others than enjoying on your own - whatever success you achieve.
Archibald Marwizi
A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You can see a person without using your eyes,hear a person without using your ears,carry a person without using your hands,speak to a person without using your mouth,and move a person without using your feet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't judge a person by the place he or she is. I'm more interested in where that person is going, and the steps they are taking to get there.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Appearance matters, we see your presentation before we get a chance to sample the substance within. You might miss a chance for the latter.
Archibald Marwizi
Fish that boast in a pond should not boast in the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Success is the shyest creature,blushes when you court it,jilts you when you propose to it,reneges later and perhaps blushes again.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You will never reach the stars without courage to lose sight of the ground.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A garden is never beautiful by accident.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The saddest day in the woods is when birds run out of happy songs to sing.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Someone or something that wastes your time, makes you lose a part of your life. One you can never get back.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Choices and decisions must be supported by your passion, resolve and a productive work ethic. If these meet opportunity - your success has finally come!
Archibald Marwizi
I don’t want to be told when I wake up, terrified by a dream of total annihilation, because of the H-bomb exploding, that people felt that way about the cross-bow. It isn’t true. There is something new in the world. And I don’t want to hear, when I’ve had an encounter with some mogul in the film industry, who wields the kind of power over men’s minds that no emperor ever did, and I come back feeling trampled on all over, that Lesbia felt like that after an encounter with her wine-merchant. And I don’t want to be told when I suddenly have a vision (though God knows it’s hard enough to come by) of a life that isn’t full of hatred and fear and envy and competition every minute of the night and the day that this is simply the old dream of the golden age brought up to date …
Doris Lessing
Global summits are necessary to discuss and strategise, but will never be the platform that will uproot the seeds of hatred, intolerance, polluted beliefs and passionate convictions that fuel whatever we term terrorism. The excelling leader should be thinking of dealing with the soil and the seed, how do you make sure the soil is not polluted and how do you counter the retrogressive seed that is being planted?
Archibald Marwizi
You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.
Alexandra Fuller
Lust makes you weak, passion makes you strong, love makes you brave, and heartache makes you wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Hearts may break, and relationships end, but life goes on. You can't stop life's motion; it's either you let life pass you by or you go with it's motion.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Let your work speak for itself:If poor, it will remain silent.If average, it will whisper.If good, it will talk.If great, it will shout.If genius, it will sing.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Brilliance is the masterpiece of your mind. Excellence is the masterpiece of your heart. Genius is the masterpiece of your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Shall I make you a cup of tea? He asked. It was the classic response to crisis practiced throughout these islands—in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. Emotional turmoil, danger, even disaster could be faced with far greater equanimity if the kettle was switched on. War has been declared! There’s been a major earthquake! The stock market has collapsed! Oh really? Let me put the kettle on….
Alexander McCall Smith
If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The principles that guide your decisions as a leader must not be contradictory to your personal values. Your personal values must lay the strong foundation on which you build your leadership tenets. In becoming a principle-centred leader, these leadership values become your guiding principles and lenses for decision making.
Archibald Marwizi
Each time a star twinkles, God is winking at the universe.
Matshona Dhiliwayo
Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Introspect.You know yourself more each day,Yet, you find out how little you know yourself too.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Take your mission and yourself very seriously. Stick to your schedule and keep time. Cut expenditure of time and money from non-core activities and redirect to those that give more value to the pursuit of your purpose. Never embark on your work or a project without a plan, even if it’s just a mental plan. Use the old carpenter’s rule – “Measure twice and cut once.” Do not leave room for substandard results.
Archibald Marwizi
Today’s amateurs are tomorrow’s champions.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I know someone said it's over,And shattered all your dreams.Come here, oh tattered soul.Broken dreams, you say.Now that you're awake,Let me show you something I learned the same hard way.Get up and give yourself a shake.Life is for living, so don't die for anyone's sake.What I say heals her heart.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
You have the world at your feet if you have wisdom in your mind.You have the world in your hands if you have joy in your heart.You have the world in your bosom if you have love in your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The good don't masquerade their goodness, they just are.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Don't ruin a good opportunity fixating on a bad one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One secret to wisdom:think more, speak less.If you let your words be few,your troubles will not be many.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
When you look into the mirror, you can’t even see your heart; but when God looks at your shadow, He sees your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An egg's true value is only known when it is broken.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don’t need armor if your skin is thick.You don’t need a sword if your mind is sharp.You don’t need a shield if your heart is strong.You don’t need a fortress is your soul is secure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is the challenge for every leader to develop and invest in those he depends on, to ensure his or her vision is realized in the way it has been put upon the leader’s heart. These key people will enhance the success or taint the leadership image and brand of the visionary.
Archibald Marwizi
Talent is the seed,hard work is the stem,perseverance is the branch,and success is the fruit.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You must learn to accept that humans make mistakes, but when the same issue is repeated over and over without corrective strategies to plug the holes, then you must expect negative impact on your definition of success. It is normal to make a mistake, but learn, face the consequences, get back up and march on. If you want to be different or stand out as a brand, then your actions, habits, behaviours and decisions must reflect that 'you care about what people think or say about you.
Archibald Marwizi
I have the soul of a white man, the soul of a black man, the soul of an Asian man; the soul of every man.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird does not achieve its highest potential inside its shell.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom frees men, even if they are in prison.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A slap from an angel will make you wiserthan a kiss from the devil.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird must rely on its own wings if it is to conquer the sky.
Matshona Dhliwayo