Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 47

There is need for clarity on what your leadership role stands for and the kind of unwavering and unstoppable beliefs required. These beliefs must not be deterred by current circumstances and conditions. They must become your source of internal strength and inspiration, especially during trying times. How strong, positive and empowering is your belief system as a leader?
Archibald Marwizi
Don't turn a blind eye to those that empathize; that care when no one else does, because it could lead to a very satisfying and meaningful relationship, with profound levels of loyalty.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream.
Archibald Marwizi
Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A year of contentment is worth more than ten of prosperity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We are all born stars, but some refuse to shine and others make it their life’s mission to glow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To achieve something, action is needed; but thoughtful and calculated action is better.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
...or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
Doris Lessing
The greatest love stories are not written by the ink of the pen, but by the ink of the heart.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you look at it, life is like one big series of lessons, that starts the moment we are born.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
It is in the darkest hour that a star reveals its brightest light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Books of protectionThe Stellah Mupanduki books are full of protection of everything in your life. When you read them, then, you are protected physically, you are protected emotionally, you are protected in your environment, you are protected in your family, your children are protected, you are protected in your business and career, you are protected in your investments, you are protect in the work of your hands, you are protected in your home, you are protected in your hometown, in your country and in this whole world...You are protected as you travel…You are protected wherever you are and wherever you go...You are just protected in everything about you...You are protected with the wonderful presence of the Holy Spirit of God that comes into your life with an anointing presence as you read and absorb the works of God Almighty breathed in the Stellah Mupanduki books. Don't miss a single title, go for all of them in order to receive in fullness the true presence of the Holy Spirit coming to dwell in your body, soul and life with a wonderful healing protection. Buy these books and you will have nothing to worry about in your life...Says the Lord God Almighty.
Stellah Mupanduki
Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not fixate on the odds against you but on victory ahead of you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom is a great prophet, faith is a great warrior, knowledge is a great sage, and virtue is a great priest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Letting go of sorrow gives you enough strength to carry happiness.Letting go of anger gives you enough strength to carry kindness.Letting go of fear gives you enough strength to carry hopefulness.Letting go of resentment gives you enough strength to carry gratefulness.Letting go of disappointment gives you enough strength to carry joyfulness.Letting go of avarice gives you enough strength to carry contentedness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind has the Propensity to Excel along the Path of least resistance thereby ostracising other equally important "concepts" It is this lack of restrictions of the mind that separates our intellectually aptitude
Archibald Gumiro
The wise are like a river; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Debate, but do not argue.Challenge, but do not force your opinions.To win an argument, but lose a friendship, is a loss.To lose an argument, but retain a friendship, is gain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Birds build nests because they cannot fly forever.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Throwing dirt at a diamond does not diminish its value.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I’m not going to be like my mother. You’re maniacs. You’re mad."“Yes,” said Kate. “I know it. And so you won’t be. The best of luck to you. And what are you going to be instead?
Doris Lessing
Each daily task, is but the future in a mask.
Ronald Mapamula
You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too often, for it is the key to the enjoyment of literature.
Doris Lessing
An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest generals were once soldiers.The greatest priests were once laymen.The greatest teachers were once students.The greatest artists were once amateurs.The greatest masters were once apprentices.The greatest prophets were once disciples.The greatest champions were once underdogs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great deeds begin in the mind,extraordinary deeds begin in the heart,and remarkable deeds begin in the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Who's to say that once I run, I'll find that isn't enough? Who's to say I won't end up feeling exactly the way I do right now-not safe, but stifled? Maybe I'll want to run again, and again, and eventually I'll end up back on those old tracks, because there's nowhere left to go. Maybe. Maybe not. You have to take the risk, don't you
Paula Hawkins
Swing ten times,and you may hit once.Swing a hundred times,and you may hit ten times.Swing a thousand times,and you may hit a hundred times.Swing a thousand times,and you may hit a thousand times.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Poetic words are usually more stimulating than accurate. Taking them too seriously is a mistake.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
... eloquence is merely the product of intelligence. History is not shaped by men of genius. It is shaped by men of unwavering will. Men who focus whatever brains they have on the savvy application of power. In the end, brawn will always do the heavy lifting. Brawn will always win the war.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
The African Challenge - We must end conflict in Africa. We must lead to allow the Africans to enjoy the benefits from their natural resources. We must end poverty in Africa. Every African must be educated, have access to health care and a fair chance to fulfil their dream. Preventable sickness and disease must not reduce life expectancy or rob pregnant women of a chance to continue living. Africa must develop. Africa must not depend on foreign aid. Africa must be united and governed more effectively. Africa must customize her leadership culture and philosophy in a way that gives her global relevance and respect but still remain true and authentic to herself. Will you accept the challenge? Will you be that Africa?
Archibald Marwizi
If you are waiting for the perfect spouse, you are waiting for the perfect disappointment.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never make a promise you can't keep.Never look down on a person you can't help.Never solicit a question you can't answer.Never judge a person you don't understand.Never condemn a person you don't know.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Nurture a tree today, and it will provide you shade tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As the day you get married is as important as the years of courtship, so the journey to success is as important as success itself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.
Roy Bennett
You are guaranteed failure if you accept it. Victory is almost in your hands if you are willing to die for it. Success is already yours if God has ordained it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Later, as she drove the children to school, she thought how worn the grooves were along which they moved their quarrels. She could feel herself saying all the clichéd phrases of a thousand injured women before her, but she could never stop herself. - ‘The Negotiated Settlement
Petina Gappah
One soul-mate is enough to face life's countless soul-enemies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from stars; even in the dark they give off light, not despair.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly less stupid than we are to accept truths that the great men have always known. They have always known, they have known for ten thousand years, that to lock a human being into solitary confinement can make a madman of him or an animal. They have always known that a poor man frightened of the police and his landlord is a slave. They have always known that frightened people are cruel. They have always known that violence breeds violence. And we know it. But do the great masses of the world know it? No. It is our job to tell them. Because the great men can't be bothered. Their imaginations are already occupied with how to colonise Venus; they are already creating in their minds visions of a society full of free and noble human beings. Meanwhile, human beings are ten thousand years behind them, imprisoned in fear. The great men can't be bothered. And they are right. Because they know we are here, the boulder-pushers. They know we will go on pushing the boulder up the lower slopes of an immensely high mountain, while they stand on the top of the mountain, already free. All our lives, you and I, we will use all our energies, all our talents, into pushng that boulder another inch up the mountain. And they rely on us and they are right; and that is why we are not useless after all.
Doris Lessing
The world’s most lethal venom is not found on the tongues of serpents, but on the tongues of a disgruntled wife.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don’t have to pay the sun to rise, the moon to shine, and the stars to glow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The heart’s will is greater than the hand’s strength.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When times get tough and your path gets rough, just hold on. You'll get there soon enough.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Be perceptive.Be progressive.Be proactive.Be productive.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.
Roy Bennett
Do not lose focus because of small wins or temporary set-backs. You can only score if you keep your eyes on the ball and be certain of where you want to place it even if you are not in physical sight of the goal. Visualise the dream but never take your eyes off the dynamic plan of action.
Archibald Marwizi
If we take care of our neighbors,our neighbors will take care of us.If we take care of our friends,our friends will take care of us.If we take care of our family,our family will take care of us.If we take care of others,our God will take care of us.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to know a person’s true character, observe how he treats those who don’t matter.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The house may have been impressive in stature, but having gasped as they drove up the driveway, she had been disappointed by the interior. It was so bare. Lacking in things. She was mystified by this invisible wealth and the austerity of the house.She didn’t understand Mrs Zvobgo, she was rich but chose to live, in Tsitsi’s opinion, like a pauper. She was clearly uninterested in buying things. Maybe it was because she had never known poverty. Tsitsi on the other hand felt she was well versed in it.Tsitsi, unlike Mrs Zvobgo, wasn’t above noveau riche vulgarities. She didn’t want any sort of English boarding school minimalism. She wanted more. She wanted things. Things . Things. Things. Many of them. That much she was willing to admit. She made a private decision then that she would change this when she became the woman of this household. She knew they said wealth whispered and rich shouted, but what good was having all that they did if she had to keep it like some sort of secret?
Panashe Chigumadzi
If you are willing to kill for your beliefs, you are a murderer; if you are willing to die for your beliefs, you are a martyr.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Do the dishes, and you have her heart; do the dishes and the laundry, and you have her soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo