Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 7

How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you fall for someone, make sure they’re there to catch you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love in fools is better than hate in the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Just be yourself and live life, because no one knows with surety what we are doing here on Earth. Some might guess, but that doesn't mean their opinions are correct.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
You learn more from your tears than your smiles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.
Matshona Dhliwayo
He who illumines one has begun illumining the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Dream all you can, live all you say, work all you must.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.Never betray old friends for new ones.Never mistake flattery for praise.Never rely on dishonorable people.Never trust your enemy's friends.Never mistake someone’s kindness for weakness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Rise in your mind and you will rise in your world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Our emotions are the continuous waves and undercurrents that enable us to flow but in some instances, when hold on to them, suppress them or repress them, or express the destructively, they disrupt the flow
Mavis Mazhura
I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The problem is not lack of leadership, the problem is lack of good leadership
Lazarus Takawira
Your mind is greater than your problems,your heart is greater than your troubles,your soul is greater than your temptations,and your God is greater than your obstacles.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The soul's rainbow has more colors than the sky's stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A wise person makes one error,and learns ten lessons.He makes two errors,and learns twenty lessons.He makes three errors,and learns thirty lessons.He makes few errors,and learns countless lessons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great souls carry great burdens.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greater your wisdom, the shorter the distance to success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you fall in love, make sure your landing is soft.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Life begins at the edge of your fears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don’t have to swim when you know how to walk on water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your personal brand must exude who you are, what you stand for, specifies your target market, what value you intend to add to them and the unique offering through which you will do that.
Archibald Marwizi
The size of a fish does not determine its speed.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird must overcome its fear of heights before it can rule the skies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant past: I am so sure that everything we now take for granted is going to be utterly swept away in the next d
Doris Lessing
To achieve your desired success you have to be effectively selling something and to be significant in impact, you must be teaching somehow. How effectively are you selling and how well are you teaching?
Archibald Marwizi
A kind stranger is better than an uncaring friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.
NoViolet Bulawayo
Walking towards love is wiser than falling into it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky....They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same....Look at them leaving in droves, despite knowing they will be welcomed with restraint in those strange lands because they do not belong
NoViolet Bulawayo
The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not trust everyone who smiles at you;some admire your achievements,but some misunderstand them,and many more envy them.Jealousy is like the sky:everywhere on everyone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Success is the sweetest thing to taste,the bitterest thing to lose,and the hardest thing to earn.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars do not shine on their friends alone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fortune hides behind action.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Ancient wisdom is a present blessing.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The road might seem long,But the joy of arriving makes it all worth it.All I have to do is be strong.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Call your personal board now and discuss the important questions. You cannot invent, re-invent or show creative brilliance without asking pertinent questions. You must demand answers from your life, from your present circumstances or from any challenge you may face. Why can’t you change? What does it take to get different results? What else can you do or try?
Archibald Marwizi
You look at me and judge me. And I just want to ask, for what? I am in full control. No one has a gun to my head. Why can't this be my profession,one I have chosen for myself? I tell you prostitutes are professional in their skills and practise it like the vocation of true apostles- and why shouldn't they? What's so different from the accountant or the doctor selling his time? I ended up in this profession in the same way someone might end up being a lawyer because the couldn't get into engineering or dentistry,or because they couldn't get into medicine, or even a banker who grew up telling everyone they want to be a soccer player. They do those things because that was what was available for heir talents and their circumstances at that time. But do we pity them? No, because that's lif-
Panashe Chigumadzi
If your present thoughts do not lift you higher than your previous ones, rid yourself of them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Dream more.Plan more.Work more.Achieve more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
By taking control of the present, you are choosing to alter the past you are making for yourself, and your future too.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
A wound won't heal if you keep touching it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You want Change, today we'll show you Change!Here's your democracy, your human rights, eat it, eat eat eat!
NoViolet Bulawayo
Be smarter than others imagined.Be braver than others anticipated.Be stronger than others calculated.Be better than others envisioned.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are a girl's best friend until love introduces her to her soulmate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.
Alexandra Fuller
Stumbling up a hill strengthens you more than sprinting down a mountain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A river cannot boast to a sea.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don't win battles you walk away from.
Matshona Dhliwayo