Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 5

If love was a sin, God Himself would be in the hottest part of Hell.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A diamond is just a rock that refused to break under heat and pressure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wolves travel in packs, not in herds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of suble air.
Doris Lessing
Small people have small minds, and thus deride big dreamers.Small people have small hearts, and thus disparage big chancers.Small people have small souls, and thus disdain big achievers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Keep positive.Stay focused.Stand strong.Fight on.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.
Archibald Marwizi
If you are sad, love will make you happy; afraid, love will make you brave; weak, love will make you strong; and broken, love will make you whole.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Faith moves mountains, intelligence goes over them, wisdom goes around them, but love levels them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The distance between your dreams and reality is faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Trust is hard to gain, but it is even harder to regain once lost.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Teachers were not allowed to beat children as they did in the past, although, Mma Ramotswe reflected, there were some boys-and indeed some young men-who might have been greatly improved by moderate physical correction. The apprentices, for example: would it help if Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni resorted to physical chastisement-nothing severe, of course-but just an occasional kick in the seat of the pants while they were bending over to change a tyre or something like that? The thought made her smile. She would even offer to administer the kick herself, which she imagined might be oddly satisfying, as one of the apprentices, the one who still kept on about girls, had a largeish bottom which she thought would be quite comfortable to kick. How enjoyable it would be to creep up behind him and kick him when he was least expecting it, and then to say: Let that be a lesson! That was all one would have to say, but it would be a blow for women everywhere.
Alexander McCall Smith
Wisdom is a reliable companion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Not every dog that barks, bites.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Most morality, thought Mma Ramotswe, was about doing the right thing because it had been identified as such by a long process of acceptance and observance. You simply could not create your own morality because your experience would never be enough to do so. What gives you the right to say that you know better than your ancestors? Morality is for everybody and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was what made modern morality, with its emphasis on individuals and the working out of an individual person, so weak. If you gave people the chance to work out their morality, then they would work out the version which was easiest for them and which allowed them to do what suited them for as much of the time as possible. That, in Mma Ramotswe's view, was simple selfishness, whatever grand name one gave it.
Alexander McCall Smith
Your darkest fears are the veil between you and your brightest rewards.
Matshona Dhliwayo
God has a hundred percent success rate in all that He does.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I am sorry, I was wrong and it’s my fault, these are words only accustomed to humble leadership
Lazarus Takawira
Attitude is the mind-set, the kind of thoughts you process and meditate on, to generate the kind of feelings you have towards life, people and issues. This is what makes you do what you do in the way you do it.
Archibald Marwizi
The happiest people in the world are those who give happiness to others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The world would have no rainbows if the sky had not storms.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It must start by knowing Time = Life. Spending your life on impulse will lead to a broke life, just like impulse buying leads to an empty wallet! How much value you place on your time reflects in the activities that consume your time.
Archibald Marwizi
If you check your personal blind spots, you can be able to guard against focusing on what you cannot do, but reduce the areas of weakness by taking their space with more of your strengths.
Archibald Marwizi
Get high on love, not drugs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An archer must never blame a target for missing it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Brave cubs become fierce lions.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Further north, I met a Siberian hermit who lived in the foothills of the Ural Mountains. His life’s passion was wrestling black bears ... in the nude (him not the bears). He did not know why he did it. All the hermit knew was that if he stopped wrestling bears, he would die.
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
When you read a book and its words agree with what you think, your view of the world or your feelings at the time, you discover that there are people out there that think like you. That takes away a feeling of loneliness.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
It takes more than one individual to make a team.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like water; soft as it is, it breaks through rocks and impenetrable surfaces.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Dream the impossible.See the invisible.Pursue the intangible.Achieve the incredible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What inspires you to do what you do is the reason why you persist, even in the face of trouble.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Any seed that is planted by God bears fruit even before it touches the ground.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no sharper spear than wisdom.There is no larger shield than faith.There is no better fortress than truth.There is no greater strength than hope.There is no higher power than love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Eternity is a long time, but only a day when you are in love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you step on a serpent, it will reply you with its fangs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Far help seldom solves near troubles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The cleanest feet in the universe are positive thoughts walking through your mind.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be deliberate about what you choose to read, watch or listen to – these are source codes to your internal programming.
Archibald Marwizi
Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion is not afraid of walking alone, even if the whole jungle is pursuing it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You make the plans - otherwise you will die thinking it is not possible to plan to have time for work, for exercise, for sleep, for relaxation, for recreation, for eating, for entertainment, for love, for family, for spirituality, for friends, for personal reflection, for personal development, for business, for charity all in one life!
Archibald Marwizi
Failing over and over again is how you learn to succeed over and over again.
Matshona Dhliwayo
…the world was a vale of tears—it always had been.
Alexander McCall Smith
A rose's prick is better than a daisy's kiss.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.
Alexander McCall Smith
God sometimes uses ugly vessels to carry beautiful things.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom is the ability to ignore foolishness
Lazarus Takawira
Noble leaders choose: wisdom over wealth, knowledge over fame, understanding over honor, virtue over titles, and people over power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rainbow is a storm's masterpiece.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Some people like to spend their time watching and studying how other people spend their own time.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe