Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 3

The opinion of success matters more than the opinions of your critics.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you are at your lowest God is getting ready to take you to your highest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Excellence is the key that opens successes' door.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Believe in yourself, not in your critics.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You will never reach the stars without courage to lose sight of the ground.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wind either breaks a tree or teaches it to dance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird does not achieve its highest potential inside its shell.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Extraordinary storms turn average seamen into extraordinary sailors.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The bigger the bricks critics throw at you the bigger the palace you are going to build.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars are born out of dark moments.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Building castles in the air is only wise if you build a ladder to reach them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rainbow earns its colors in the storm.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Turkeys can run with eagles but cannot fly with them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you water your dreams with excellence, success will grow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Storms pass by on their way to get all the colors needed to paint your rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Against all odds, a seed rises from darkness and beautifies the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Use the arrows failure throws at you to hunt for success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Harsh winters precede pleasant springs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Blow by blow a giant is knocked down.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t expect success to fall from the sky if it didn't evaporate from the sweat of your hands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Shine your light so bright, and no one will need a telescope to see you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Rainbows are birthed in storms, not in sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Count your smiles, not your frowns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If God wanted the sky to be empty, He would not have given birds wings to fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your talent is a seed; cultivate it, and in no time, you will harvest success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a lion turned every time small dogs barked at it, it would be the laughing stock of the jungle.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Thunder is noise to a pessimist but music to an optimist.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the sky was the limit, stars would not light our way to the edge of the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird must overcome its fear of heights before it can rule the skies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is foolish for the moon to compete with the sun for the spotlight.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars shine on us, but talent shines in us.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Invest in your dreams, not in your fears.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Darkness is an uncomfortable place, but that is where stars are made.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.
Roy Bennett
She was still not at ease with the idea that she was now important enough to have people as accessories. Nor was she comfortable with the idea of these people as gatekeepers with access to the details of their personal lives. Whenever she felt herself shrinking under the indifferent glare of the staff that surrounded her, as she did in this instance, she straightened her back and lifted her chin in the way that Chiedza, her trusted advisor-friend, had instructed her to do.
Panashe Chigumadzi
You know, Tsitsi, you are so quick to point out that you are not a prostitute. I just want to laugh because you are just falling into rank. You all should spare us your ‘morality’ that lauds ‘women’ over the supposedly lesser ‘whores’ and ‘girls’. That’s how society sees us. That’s how you see us. You want it to be that we are like coal, only to be loved in the dark and tossed like ashes come morning.
Panashe Chigumadzi
You can’t fight an evil disease with sweet medicine,’ says the ng’anga.
Panashe Chigumadzi
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Stellah Mupanduki
It is the challenge for every leader to develop and invest in those he depends on, to ensure his or her vision is realized in the way it has been put upon the leader’s heart. These key people will enhance the success or taint the leadership image and brand of the visionary.
Archibald Marwizi
Having a succession and legacy plan in place will make you ready for forced changes due to circumstances beyond your control, like death, any form of incapacity, sudden changes in laws and regulations and even corporate scandals and moral failure.
Archibald Marwizi
What I feel now doesn't matter at all? But at what point am I entitled to say to myself, what I am feeling now is valid? After all, Anna-' Here Tommy turned to face her: 'one can't go through one's whole life in phases. There must be a goal somewhere.' His eyes gleamed out hatred; and it was with difficulty that Anna said: 'If you're suggesting that I've reached a goal, and I'm judging you from some superior point, then it's not true.''Phases,' he insisted. 'Stages. Growing pains.''But I think that's how women see-people. Certainly their own children. In the first place, there's always been nine months of not knowing whether the baby would be a girl or a boy. Sometimes I wonder what Janet would have been like if she'd been born a boy. Don't you see! And then babies go through one stage after another, and then they are children. When a woman looks at a child she sees all the things he's been at the same time. When I look at Janet sometimes I see her as a small baby and I feel her inside my belly and I see her as various sizes of small girl, all at the same time.' Tommy's stare was accusing and sarcastic, but she persisted: 'That's how women see things. Everything in a sort of continuous creative stream-well, isn't it natural we should?
Doris Lessing
A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Yesterday, I was clever, I wanted to be rich. Today, I am wise, I want to be happy.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The world accommodates you for fitting in, but only rewards you for standing out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have the power to put a smile on one person’s face, you have the power to change the world.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Thoughts are powerful; before you were born, you were one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If seeds despaired in their darkest hours, they would never rise to enjoy their brightest days.
Matshona Dhliwayo