Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 46

Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
Roy Bennett
When you use your mind to its highest potential,people will respect you.When you use your heart to its highest potential,people will praise you.When you use your soul to its highest potential,people will honor you.When you use your life to its highest potential,people will immortalize you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big difference between shopping for food and shopping for shoes, and that difference concentrated on one word: guilt.
Alexander McCall Smith
Crying all the way to success is better than smiling all the way to failure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Greater than a sage is the one who taught him; God is the teacher, and the wise are all His students.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When your inner light shines your outer world glows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until it shines.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A leader, who divides his own people, contaminates his platform and begins to destroy his own territory.
Archibald Marwizi
Desire speaks, passion shouts, lust screams, and love whispers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.
Paula Hawkins
If your ears are bigger than your mouth, you will go very far in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If we treated others with the consideration that one would give to those who only had a few days to live, then we would be kinder, at least.
Alexander McCall Smith
You are one thought away from intelligence, one word away from kindness, one deed away from excellence, one step away from brilliance, and one second away from transcendence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great winds only challenge great trees.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When love enters your heart, hate is given an eviction notice.
Matshona Dhliwayo
... the poor always live on debt. At this point, time is the only thing I still have the credibility to borrow.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
Little things matter. Even a small tear wets the face.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
it is the deep-black-sky quiet time of night, which is the halfway time between the sun setting and the sun rising when even the night animals are quiet—as if they, like day animals, take a break in the middle of their work to rest.
Alexandra Fuller
A slice is a loaf to a mouse.
Matshona Dhliwayo
God is not Christian.God is not Muslim.God is not Buddhist.God is love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who has great love has great power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the sky was the limit, none of our heroes would have reached the moon.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To shine always love always.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge comes naturally with studying, and with God's touch, instantly. Wisdom comes naturally with age, and with God's touch, immediately.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your presence only truly matters to people who feel your absence.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When the heart says “yes” it is difficult for the mind to say “no.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is like lightening; it can strike anyone, anywhere, and at any time.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A day with a sage will save you a thousand of study.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t let past disappointments rob you of future happiness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Knowledge will give you strength,but wisdom will give you power.Talent will give you respect,but genius will give you honor.Pleasure will give you happiness,but joy will give you contentment.Strength will give you fortitude,but love will give you dominion.Courage will give you victory,but faith will give you greatness.Virtue will give you the world,but God will give you universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When two souls are united as one the universe itself is powerless to separate them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When they judge you, yawn.When they misunderstand you, smile.When they underestimate you, laugh.When they condemn you, ignore.When they envy you, rejoice.When they oppose you, prevail.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
Roy Bennett
An apple only falls far from its tree when carried away by divine winds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The hotter the furnace the finer the gold.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One of the most liberating things a person can do is to admit that he or she is human and is flawed.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Plucking a rose only proves you desire it, but nurturing it proves you love it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Today is tomorrow’s stepping stone, but for the wise it is a ladder.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A kiss a day keeps your wife's wrath away.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Divorce fear. Court courage. Pursue hope. Marry love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
... if you keep an open mind, life will show you a way out of your problems.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The most beautiful rainbows are sometimes formed in the ugliest storms.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who loves roses cannot avoid its thorns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the soul's rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Seeds are proof that God sometimes packages miracles in small things.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Well, I think the first thing to do when trying to let go of the past is to accept it. Denial only delays the problem for later. Deal with it now.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Nice guys finish last but bad guys don't finish at all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Because it took you years to become so negative, doubting and dis-empowered – it must now become your daily journey to a life-time of positivity and empowering thoughts, words, actions and beliefs.
Archibald Marwizi
The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear ends where love begins.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing
One who does not deserve your tears does not deserve your heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There are times when you have to do things for yourself, not because no one else can do it, but because no one else can do it to the degree you want.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The path to marital bliss is to begin each day with a kiss.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is difficult to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of doubt, impossible to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of fear, but conceivable to soar to your destiny carried by the wings of faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn like an amateur. Train like a champion. Fight like a warrior. Triumph like a conqueror.
Matshona Dhliwayo