Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 34

If you want to get positive results you have to refuse to think negative thoughts by substituting them with constructive ones. When you develop a positive attitude toward life, your life will start having a positive result.
Roy Bennett
Surround yourself with positive people.
Roy Bennett
Positive thoughts precede positive results.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Roy Bennett
Roy Bennett
Your action plan is what you use to turn your dream into reality.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.
Alexander McCall Smith
Why do you wake up in the morning?
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
The days seem short, and time seems too little to do what you love.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Education, possessions, or people cannot replace passion, but they are given meaning by your passion in life.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
We need work as much as we need rest; the two complement each other, one drawing power and enjoyability from the other. Rest is sweet after work, and work enjoyable after a good rest.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
...But I do like the idea of household gods--shall we get some? A set of little statues and bring the boys up to believe in them?""I hope they believe in something," said Elspeth. 'Imagaine believing in nothing at all--not even in love, or justice, or any of the things that can make people passionate.""Such as a country?"Elspeth thought about this. "I suppose there are lots of people who believe in Scotland. Or the European Union, for that matter. Their belief anables them to ... well, to talk about the future with enthusiasm. They don't like things as they are and they are convinced that things will be much improved once they are otherwise.""Well, why not?" asked Matthew."I didn't say there was any reason why not. I'm just commenting on that sort of belief. The trouble is that it might make discussion difficult. If somebody believes to strongly in one particular solution to the world's problems, then it may obscure the nuances. That's all I was saying." Elspeth paused. "They may not see that there are others who have a different view. You can love things in a whole lot of different ways, can't you?
Alexander McCall Smith
The time for careers and passions was gone. Hunger pangs displaced ambition.
Panashe Chigumadzi
Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Take one more step because it might be the last one needed.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Action gives a decision power and finality.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
It is what you do about the fear you feel that sets you apart, to be a coward or a courageous person.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Fear of failure is deceptive.Don't do it, you'll fail, it says.Courage is inceptive.It's where success starts.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.
Alexander McCall Smith
It’s a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruelty is at the root of life. And the reason why I have only given my attention to the heroic or the beautiful or the intelligent is because I won’t accept that injustice and the cruelty, and so won’t accept the small endurance that is bigger than anything.
Doris Lessing
…the world was a vale of tears—it always had been.
Alexander McCall Smith
People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary
Alexander McCall Smith
In calmness of mind is greatness
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
In calmness of mind is greatness.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Let your hair loose, and enjoy the breeze.Go out into the woods and sit under trees,Do whatever it takes and set your mind at ease.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
A peaceful mind is a powerful mind...Set your mind at ease and take charge of yourself.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Thoughts have the power,To change how you perceive the world around you,To inflict worry, or make peace abound too.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
When you read a book and its words agree with what you think, your view of the world or your feelings at the time, you discover that there are people out there that think like you. That takes away a feeling of loneliness.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Thoughts can be such slippery things sometimes,Very hard to handle.But to a well-trained mind,They are easy to bind
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
One of the most valuable gifts that a person can give (or receive) is a productive mentality. It is with a productive mentality that people change their lives for the better, in ways profound.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
To achieve something, action is needed; but thoughtful and calculated action is better.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
I'm well aware that there is no job more important than that of raising a child, but the problem is that it isn't valued.
Paula Hawkins
A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
She treated Vanessa and me as if we were visiting budgerigars that needed to be fed and then put somewhere dark for the night.
Alexandra Fuller
She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our transgressions. It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like rain from above, changing the hearts of the wicked; transforming them
Alexander McCall Smith
The hungriest wolf leads the pack.
Matshona Dhliwayo
See more than your eyes can see.Hear more than your ears can hear.Do more than your hands can do.Go further than your feet can go.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Know the limitations of your mind,and then excel them.Know the limitations of your heart,and then surpass them.Know the limitations of your soul,and then transcend them.
Matshona Dhiliwayo
I will ignore those who ridicule me.I will ignore those who undermine me.I will ignore those who undervalue me.I will ignore those who envy me.I will ignore those who disparage me.I will ignore those who betray me.I will ignore those who wrong me.I will embrace those who mentor me.I will embrace those who support me.I will embrace those who celebrate me.I will embrace those who improve me.I will embrace those who inspire me.I will embrace those who motivate me.I will embrace those who love me.
Matshona Dhiliwayo
Life is a dark stage on which you were born to shine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot reach the stars feet on the ground.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Big dreamers achieve more than big doubters.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Behind your greatest fears lie your greatest rewards.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Loud critics are silenced by loud success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your darkest experiences often lead you to your brightest fortunes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Warriors achieve more than worriers.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A garden is never beautiful by accident.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Failing over and over again is how you learn to succeed over and over again.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Critics are loud, but success is louder.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Today’s amateurs are tomorrow’s champions.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A drop of faith can create a hailstorm of success.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your darkest fears are the veil between you and your brightest rewards.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Unleash the potential that is in another and you unleash the potential that is in you.
Matshona Dhliwayo