Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 4

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
The darkest part of the storm paints the brightest part of the rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
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
Darkness is a prison from which only light escapes.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Today’s storms usher in tomorrow’s sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When night comes do not despair; rejoice instead and say to yourself, “At least now I can see the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are as the sun; the world is your stage; even without an audience, shine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The louder the dogs bark the less a lion feels threatened.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The bad chapters of your life lead to the good ones if you keep turning the pages.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don’t believe in ghosts.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, “My life has just begun.
Matshona Dhliwayo
An Oak tree is a daily reminder that great things often have small beginnings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have much, be generous; if you have little, be grateful; even if you have nothing, be hopeful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Diamonds are proof that the most valuable things are sometimes formed in the dark.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fastest one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There are three things that a beggar and a rich person share every day: the sun, the moon, and the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Fear is an assassin; if you let it in your life, it will kill your dreams.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Make your own luck, and then share it with others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you have the world on your shoulders, God alone can help you carry it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Helping yourself is common sense, helping others is virtue, helping yourself and others is enlightenment.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have nothing but joy in this life, you are still rich.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A lion conquers more in one day than a sheep in a lifetime.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Where the world only sees a seed, an optimist sees a tree.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Never give a negative thought an inch or it will take a mile.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you count your blessings, count life twice.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Snails do not despair for having short legs, but rejoice for being able to travel long distances in spite of them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If Noah waited for signs of rain to build an ark, he would have been swept away by the flood.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don’t command wind in the direction it blows, but you command a ship in the direction it sails.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Great winds only challenge great trees.
Matshona Dhliwayo