Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 2

Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more than coming up with excuses for breaking the diet. Mma Ramotswe was made of sterner stuff than that, and so she persisted.
Alexander McCall Smith
Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read novels for information about areas of life we don’t know — Nigeria, South Africa, the American army, a coal-mining village, coteries in Chelsea, etc. We read to find out what is going on. One novel in five hundred or a thousand has the quality a novel should have to make it a novel — the quality of philosophy. I find that I read with the same kind of curiosity most novels, and a book of reportage. Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a type of person, not yet admitted to the general literate consciousness. The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means towards it.
Doris Lessing
Rather than always impose your will,allow men to learn from their mistakes.Great failures make great teachers;success enables one to forget some thingsa failure cannot afford to.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear mediocrity,not failure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Following the herd reduces you to a cow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The shepherd's fortune is in his sheep.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Ordinary leaders move mounds,good leaders move hills,but great leaders move mountains.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Guide humbly.Guide happily.Guide hopefully.Guide honorably.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Guide impactfully.Guide impressively.Guide intuitively.Guide incredibly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Guide valiantly.Guide venerably.Guide valiantly.Guide virtuously.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Suspense consumes your opponents, whereas mystery intrigues your followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A general is powerless without an army.An army is directionless without a general.To win battles a general and an army need each other.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Kings struggle to rule over nations,men struggle to rule over themselves;God effortlessly rules the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Leading fools is like leading no one.Following a fool is like following no one.The wise make the best leaders and followers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot lead those who do not want to follow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In serving the poor,one serves humanity.In serving mankind,one serves equity.In serving goodness,one serves God.In serving the Creator,one serves himself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A ruler who is loved is greater than a ruler who is feared.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot lead and follow a herd at the same time.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There are those who will hate you for the wrong reasons; you must be shrewd but innocent around them. There are those who will hate you for the right reasons, you must listen to them.Then there are those who will love you for the wrong reasons, you need them but never listen to them, and those who love you for the right reasons you must always keep near.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you lead the wise, walk behind them.When you lead the virtuous, walk beside them.When you lead the imprudent, walk in front of them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest leaders are the greatest servants.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Do not hire those who are incapable.Do not fire those who are capable.A small, devoted army is greaterthan a large, indifferent one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you despise your people,you will disregard them.If you hate your people,you will harm them.If you esteem your people,you will serve them.If you love your people,you will even die for them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Lead rationally.Lead responsibly.Lead resiliently.Lead reliably.
Matshona Dhliwayo
What supporters say about their leadertells men a third about who he is.What supporters do for their leadertells men two thirds about who he is.What supporters give up for their leadertells men all of who he is.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Lead competently.Lead productively.Lead skillfully.Lead excellently.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Average leaders take you to the mountain.Superior leaders take you up the mountain.Excellent leaders take you to mountaintop.Transcendent leaders take you to the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Know when to push, pull or hold your followers, lest you push them while they are on the edge of a cliff
Lazarus Takawira
Know when to push, pull & hold your followers, lest you push them while on the edge of a cliff
Lazarus Takawira
Being a young leader is not the problem, having a small mind is
Lazarus Takawira
Don’t remove the ladder once you done with it. Leave it for others to climb too
Lazarus Takawira
Leadership without a following is null and at best loitering
Lazarus Takawira
I shall go and sit under a tree…. Which tree, Mma?... Oh, there are many trees in this life, she said. It does not matter which tree you choose, as long as you choose the right one.
Alexander McCall Smith
And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you?
Alexander McCall Smith
Write the masterpiece that has not been written.Sing the masterpiece that has not been sung.Paint the masterpiece that has not been painted.Create the masterpiece that has not been created.
Matshona Dhliwayo
And so the spirits just gazed at us with eyes milked dry of care.
NoViolet Bulawayo
Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.
Alexander McCall Smith
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
Crisis is a good revealer of great leadership
Lazarus Takawira
When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Behind our wise words lie rare jewels;behind our reckless ones, bombs.
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
My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she’ll end up taking over.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.
Alexander McCall Smith
Sages are soldiers on the war on ignorance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest prison in the universe is an ignorant mind.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The enlightened are superior to the learned.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Saints are slaves of good works.Sages are slaves of wisdom.Conquerors are slaves of victory.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The enlightened worry less than others,quarrel less than others,fight less than others,transgress less than others;care more than others,give more than others,and love more than others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Greater than a sage is the one who taught him; God is the teacher, and the wise are all His students.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One deed from a sage achieves more than a thousand deeds from warriors.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A sage benefits from his mistakes more than a fool benefits from his triumphs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to punish a sage lock him in the same room with a fool.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A fish is a genius in water.An eagle is a genius in air.A fox is a genius on land.A sage is a genius in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A day with a sage will save you a thousand of study.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One sage is worth more than a thousand warriors.
Matshona Dhliwayo