Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 52

When all seems to be against you, remember, a ship sometimes has to sail against the current, not with it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the highest prayer; as God is love, God cannot ignore Himself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To one full of love:a stranger is his brother,a stranger is his sister,a stranger is his mother,a stranger is his father.To one full of self:a stranger is a nuisance,a stranger is an intruder,a stranger is an adversary,a stranger is a stranger.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray for faith, hope for peace, strive for unity, and persevere for harmony.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is temporal.Time is fleeting.God is permanent.Eternity is enduring.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The loveliest flowers sometimes grow in the ugliest places.
Matshona Dhliwayo
He who teaches you how to tend a garden has given you more than he who has given you a hundred roses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are tired of walking to your destiny, sprint.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In order to bring down the great, you have to be able to reach the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Loud critics are silenced by loud success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Envy is admiration laced with resentment.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Reflection and learning are lifelong processes...
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from mistakes and set-backs (yours and other people’s), pick yourself up, make necessary changes and try again. I once came across a saying that went something like, “The wise learn from the mistakes made by fools!” So at some point we all have been fools, I suppose, since we all make mistakes.
Archibald Marwizi
Success is the daughter of perseverance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love poured out multiplies love poured in.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rough diamond is still worth more than a polished pebble.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One joke is enough to put a smile on your face.One hug is enough to put a smile on your heart.One kiss is enough to put a smile on your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Step by step a mountain is conquered.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Freedom is not a privilege for some but a right for ALL
Lazarus Takawira
I read this over today, for the first time since I wrote it. It's full of nostalgia, every word loaded with it, although at the time I wrote it I thought I was being 'objective.' Nostalgia for what? I don't know. Because I'd rather die than have to live through any of that again. And the 'Anna' of that time is like an enemy, or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.
Doris Lessing
Wind has no feet,but travels great distances,and has no hands,but carries great objects.
Matshona Dhliwayo
They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.
NoViolet Bulawayo
If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind does not need four walls to make you its prisoner.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Dreams are difficult to measure if they remain wishes – crystallise them into measurable goals with specific targets and action plans. Goals/objectives are easier to measure when broken down into tasks with clear targets and deadlines.
Archibald Marwizi
Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the volumes, but she knew that there were conversations within which she would never have the time to participate in. And that, of course, was the problem with any large collection of books, whether in a library or a bookshop: one might feel intimidated by the fact that there was simply too many to read and not know where to start.
Alexander McCall Smith
Small steps add up to complete big journeys.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett
Roy Bennett
Today’s storms usher in tomorrow’s sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Most problems can be effectively dealt with before they are in full swing.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
One who cannot swim must not blame the water.
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
Raising donkeys in the midst of horses will not make them sprinters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The ultimate form of forgiveness is in comprehending there’s nothing to forgive.
Roy Bennett
Your mind is your world.Your heart is your nature.Your soul is your universe.Your life is your creation.
Matshona Dhliwayo
We tell our stories differently, don't we, you and I?
Paula Hawkins
Crawl in faith, and you will end up walking.Walk in faith, and you will end up jogging.Jog in faith, and you will end up running.Run in faith, and you will end up sprinting.Sprint in faith, and you will end up soaring.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Moving islands in the ocean of sky.Beautiful white curtains in the sky,Veiling and unveiling portions, as time passes by.I watch clouds, when my mind feels clouded.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The tree that stands to the tempest is strong;the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Present tears water the gardens of future blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are beloved; even if you were the last person on earth, the sun would rise for you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Thunder roars but does not strike. Lightning strikes but does not roar. Choose to be lightning.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The laws of gravity work everywhere except in the heart and the soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Overcoming what frightens you the most strengthens you the most.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind can perceive the impossible.The heart can endure the impossible.The soul can experience the impossible.The hands can do the impossible.The tongue can express the impossible.The eyes can discern the impossible.The ears can understand the impossible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to be happy now, love now; if you want to be happy later, love later; but if you want to be happy always, love always.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Cherish all.Depend on few.Hurt none.Love everyone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A sage’s mind is greater than a warrior’s sword.
Matshona Dhliwayo
...and with it would come that wonderful, unmistakable smell of rain, that smell of dust and water meeting that lingered for a few seconds in the nostrils and then was gone, and would be missed, sometimes for months, before the next time that it caught you and made you stop and say to the person with you, any person: That is the smell of rain, there, right now.
Alexander McCall Smith
When life’s journey is wearisome, put on hope’s shoes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Doubt is a result of more than one internal voice giving differing and contradicting instructions and suggestions concerning a situation or a phase of your success journey. The triggering suggestions may be internal or external factors igniting internal conflict and uncertainty in the face of adversity. Yet inside of you must rise up a voice of authority which silences the disempowering shouts of unbelief. You need to have a deliberate plan to develop that internal voice of authority.
Archibald Marwizi
The strong overcome several trials.The determined overcome numerous trials.The resilient overcome many trials.The extraordinary overcome countless trials.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you do not chase success, you will be overtaken by failure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest weight a bird has to drop before it can fly is fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo