Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors

Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't ask for a girl's hand in marriage and forget to ask for her leg too.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If God had a wife He would be in just as much trouble as any man.
Matshona Dhliwayo
How often have I noticed or, indeed, listened to him? We talk, but do I actually listen, or is our conversation mainly a question of my waiting for him to stop and for it to be my turn to say something? For how many of us is that what conversation means - the setting up of our lines?
Alexander McCall Smith
She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.
Alexander McCall Smith
I can't think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you,Than to live and love life more without them.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A diamond is just another stone to one who is ignorant of its value.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Leadership is a privilege to serve and make a difference. Take care of what belongs to another as if it were your own. Be accountable to others or to another because you realize you are not a master. Be considerate of those you serve because they, not you, perceive the difference you are or you are not making, in their lives.
Archibald Marwizi
Consistency in leadership means everyone knows what to expect from you or in dealing with you. It is the quality that draws respect and value towards a leadership brand. This also means you have the discipline to stick to your principles and values regardless of challenges or consequences, and you prove this over a long period of time.
Archibald Marwizi
A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your belief system should be positive and empowering enough to influence a strong mental state and a positive attitude that will rise up to defeat any suggestion that you are destined to fail.
Archibald Marwizi
Eat right. It’s not just about too much or too little food. Eating right means knowing the right selection of foods with the right nutrient content and in the right quantities, taken at the right frequencies to maintain a healthy body and mind.
Archibald Marwizi
One key habit I adopted is washing or sanitizing of hands every time, especially after using the toilet, before eating or handling food and whenever I go to visit someone in hospital and after leaving the hospital. Also use proper protective clothing in other circumstances like assisting ailing relatives and friends with communicable diseases.
Archibald Marwizi
I have the soul of a white man, the soul of a black man, the soul of an Asian man; the soul of every man.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't wound someone's eye trying to remove the twig from it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A storm is never quiet because it is always calling out to the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When the blind lead the blind the world is full of casualties.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rainbow is a storm's masterpiece.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Falling in love is better than standing in hate.
Matshona Dhliwayo
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
You cannot walk on water or move mountains without faith.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What you give today you get tomorrow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not interested enough in other people and the ordinary doings of people. That is why the real historians of Africa had always been the grandmothers, who remembered the lineage and the stories that went with it.
Alexander McCall Smith
Smile, even when others do not.Care, even when others will not.Love, even when others could not.Give, even when others cannot.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A star never lets anything dull its sparkle, not even darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you are walking on water it is fear, not sharks, that sinks you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't be afraid of marrying the right person even if they come from the wrong background.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't look for Mrs. Right if all your character demonstrates is you are Mr. Wrong.
Matshona Dhliwayo
As a bird with beautiful feathers is the target of hunters, so the gifted are targets of the envious.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Ordinary people are products of their environment. Extraordinary people make their environments products of them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you follow the herd, people may mistake you for a cow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You become strong by lifting others up, not pulling them down.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars do not shine on their friends alone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Works from the soul transcend works from the mind.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Ordinary people pursue money, simple people pursue power, average people pursue fame, but extraordinary people pursue ideas.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When they try to judge you,remember, they themselves are judged.When they try to condemn you,remember, they themselves are condemned.When they try to break you,remember, they themselves are broken.When they try to hurt you,remember, they themselves are hurting.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Nothing prepares you for hiring a person whose only contribution to the workforce will be killing people!
Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.
Alexander McCall Smith
To make mistakes is to live, because no one is born knowing everything.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
To lose your own language was like forgetting your mother, and as sad, in a way.
Alexander McCall Smith
The Blessing #2:May love lead your eyes to look out for others,may love lead your ears to listen to others,may love lead your tongue to encourage others,may love lead your hands to help others,may love lead your mind to think of others,may love lead your heart to feel for others,and may love lead your soul to pray for others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the brightest star in the soul's sky.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Our highest deeds come from helping the lowest people.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love's light conquers hate's darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place.
Matshona Dhliwayo
f you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Keep negative people in your prayers, not in your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is the only flame that can light up your soul and universe simultaneously.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Stop, think and use your brain! Don’t’ rush through life. Take time to reflect as you define what success means to you. Always remember you are one of a kind!
Archibald Marwizi
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