Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 40

An intelligent man only argues with his wife when she has lost her voice.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Stars don't beg the sky to shine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Joy gives you strength.Hope gives you fortitude.Faith gives you courage.Love gives you power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never allow yourself to be defined by your past; ‘yesterday’ is just a word, not a dictionary.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your strength is your ticket to persistence.Your mind is your ticket to brilliance.Your heart is your ticket to excellence.Your soul is your ticket to transcendence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the road to your dreams is full of potholes, take the highway.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest leaders are the greatest servants.
Matshona Dhliwayo
See what no one else can see.Be what no one else can be.Do what no one else can do.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.
Doris Lessing
An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There are thousands of languages around the world, but love is the most beautiful of them all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be humble to those who praise you.Be pleasant to those who honor you.Be kind to those who cherish you.Be good to those who love you.Be generous to those who adore you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The best way to overcome your weaknesses is to turn them into strengths.
Matshona Dhliwayo
.... does a fair trial necessarily amount to a fair outcome?
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
If you can't find a good enough reason to do something, then why do it?
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
A leadership comfort zone brings stagnancy, deprives one of innovation, stifles growth and frustrates both the leader and the team they lead. Your personal preferences like leadership style, communication style, prejudices, habits and mannerisms must be effectively managed so that they do not work against you. You have to be careful that your strengths do not end up becoming a hindering comfort zone. Seek to lead, driven by a cause.
Archibald Marwizi
If you throw a stone into the ocean, it will reach the bottom; if you throw a word into someone’s heart, it will reach their soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When people try to pull you down, remember, they had to look up to do so.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Impossible is what you say to yourself when you have given up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
He who cannot dance blames the song.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.
Archibald Marwizi
If you despise your people,you will disregard them.If you hate your people,you will harm them.If you esteem your people,you will serve them.If you love your people,you will even die for them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It’s too risky,” said doubters.“It’s too difficult,” said scoffers.“It’s pointless,” said mockers.“It’s impossible,” said haters.“It’s already done,” said believers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Deliberately plan to be exciting and to be excited.
Archibald Marwizi
You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower does not diminish in beauty, no matter how many weeds envy it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The garden of your dreams is watered by the sweat of excellence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A step towards love is a leap towards the divine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation.
Archibald Marwizi
Practicing what you preach is the world’s most eloquent sermon.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A smile is the most beautiful thing you can wear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are better than your past, greater than your present, and brighter than your future.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The cheapest thing in your life is money; the most expensive, love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Flowers still have to stretch to bloom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
...the real poison within families is not the poison that you put in your food, but the poison that grows up in the heart when people are jealous of one another and cannot speak these feelings and drain out the poison that way.
Alexander McCall Smith
As water drowns but also cleanses, so adversity scalds but also blesses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Start planning from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.
Archibald Marwizi
The enlightened are superior to the learned.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Prosperity is good,happiness is better,and health is the best.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness, inside of everyone is the power to rise from adversity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never underestimate the power of thought. It takes days and nights of pre-meditating ideas, thoughts, pictures and visions of what you would call success. Allow your mind to be pregnant with the thought of success and how you want to achieve it. This will enable you not to be shocked by your own success when you finally achieve it, because you would have lived it countless times before.
Archibald Marwizi
What had happened was that the formal pattern of black-and-white, mistress-and-servant, had been broken by the personal relation; and when a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it is his chief preoccupation to avoid), his sense of guilt, which he denies, fumes up in resentment and he brings down the whip.
Doris Lessing
If you emit positive energy, even people who don't like you will not be negative when around you.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
It is not enough to read many books, you have to read the right ones.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Persevere like a seed; even when people try to bury you, flourish.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The primitive craving for survival is universal in all things capable of dying. Now imagine if you could isolate the basic element that drives all animals to fight for survival? What would you do with it? I already had my own ideas when I started my search for an entity I eventually dubbed “The Determination Gene”.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko