Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 2

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
If your coming into the world was a mistake, then you are the most beautiful error in the universe.
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
You must learn to accept that humans make mistakes, but when the same issue is repeated over and over without corrective strategies to plug the holes, then you must expect negative impact on your definition of success. It is normal to make a mistake, but learn, face the consequences, get back up and march on. If you want to be different or stand out as a brand, then your actions, habits, behaviours and decisions must reflect that 'you care about what people think or say about you.
Archibald Marwizi
No matter how great you are at what you do, as long as you remain known only within your own family circles, then you and your talent will die in obscurity and irrelevance. Position yourself to influence the masses by having a media, marketing and communication strategy.
Archibald Marwizi
The key questions and challenges that we must all continue to pose and remind this key sector (the media) should be, 'Do you realize the power you have, to build and to destroy; to promote success or failure; to bring life or death to a cause or talent; to give a platform or take it away?
Archibald Marwizi
Some people choose to lead, others to follow. Success is not primarily a matter of circumstances or native talent or even intelligence — it is a choice. Your beliefs, passion, values, enthusiasm, relationships, interpersonal skills and how they are blended, will move you further ahead towards success.
Archibald Marwizi
Slay Goliath and the army behind him scatters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Dream what others do not.Imagine what others have not.Do what others will not.Achieve what others could not.
Matshona Dhliwayo
They said you would fall,but were surprised when you were rising.The said you would fail,but were surprised when you were succeeding.They said you would break,but were surprised when you kept it together.The said you would deteriorate,but were surprised when you were flourishing.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Priceless diamonds often shape in worthless dirt.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To walk in the footsteps of the great, put on their shoes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The palaces faith builds are greater than the prisons fear creates.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In order to bring down the great, you have to be able to reach the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pain in the wilderness is an investment in pleasure in the Promised Land.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars shine so they can see the world, not so the world can see them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In a world full of game players, the only way to set yourself apart is to be a game changer.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no limit to what your mind can achieve, what your heart can accomplish, and what your soul can realize.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Risk little, earn little. Risk much, earn much. Risk all, earn all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
True happiness involves the freedom to be yourself.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.
Roy Bennett
Yet Nathan appreciated being alone as he sipped his cold glass of beer. It gave him time to think. In the next thirty minutes or so, the flight he was waiting for would land and his day would begin. It was autumn in the capital, and the clear skies created an illusion of a city that was at peace with itself.
Marko Phiri
A cowardly warrior is like a toothless lion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The heart carries heavy loads when it is being trained to carry weighty blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One does not become a great swimmer by swimming in shallow waters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener’s enemy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An ugly diamond is still worth more than a beautiful pebble.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If roses were not special weeds would not envy them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Flowers are prettiest where they are watered the most.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot control the ocean, but you can guide the rivers that feed it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you are too good to look after God’s trash, you are not good enough to look after God’s treasure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To see a man’s true colors, tell him you’re saving yourself for marriage. To see a woman’s true colors, tell her you’re poor.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wisdom at the mountain-foot sees farther than intelligence at the mountaintop.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you don't take inventory of your blessings, ingratitude will try to steal them from you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is better to be accepted by the bright few than by the dull masses.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Water has no mouth, but swallows many. Light has no hands, but touches many. Wind has no feet, but carries many. Darkness has no teeth, but devours many.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a bird does not bring out all of the songs on its heart, all its symphonies die inside.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The spoon’s color does not change the soup’s taste.
Matshona Dhliwayo