Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 46

Leave beauty marks in the lives of those you meet, not scars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pain teaches you more than pleasure. Failure teaches you more than success. Poverty teaches you more than prosperity. Adversity teaches you more than comfort.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, treasure God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Water returns to the ocean. Light returns to the sun. Life returns to God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower takes a while to grow, but can die in an instant; this is how it is with trust.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If death blew a trumpet each time he was coming, there would be no one to greet him on arrival.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Expand your mind. Nurture your heart. Develop your body. Cultivate your soul.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Stand alone when it is to your benefit, with others when it is to your advantage, and with everyone when it is to your empowerment.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Talk less. Do more. Fear less. Achieve more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A bee does not need to follow you to give you honey: you follow it. Become a person of value and you too won’t have to beg anyone to follow you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Behind you, leave your enemies. Beside you, keep your family. Around you, maintain your friends. Within you, cherish God.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t try to silence other people’s genius because you’re too deaf to hear your own.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The distance between two minds is understanding.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When the nest becomes too small a bird is ready to spread its wings and fly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In calm waters you still find sharks.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Genius is in you, but like a seed, you determine whether it dies or grows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is impossible to graduate from the University of Life with no scars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In life, those with heart certainly outdo those with ‘smart’.
Matshona Dhliwayo
At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Lies spread quicker than truth because they have longer legs.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is the song you dance to when reality sings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The past only dies so the future can live.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In poverty, friends are few; in prosperity, acquaintances are numerous; in affluence, associates are countless.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No tree becomes large without smaller trees hoping its branches get cut off.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When turbulence hits your sails remind yourself it is an opportunity to get to the shore quicker.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One fish in your net is better than a thousand in the ocean.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Beautiful gifts sometimes come wrapped in ugly paper.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't water anything that you don't want to grow in your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When fortune favors fools, it is to punish them for the sake of the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
People can hurt you, but you must still love. People can betray you, but you can still trust. People can put you down, but you must still rise. People can oppose you, but you can still prevail.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The most beautiful rose still has to contend with ugly thorns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When you wrestle with life, your heart inevitably becomes a warrior; when you wrestle with death, your soul inevitably becomes a conqueror.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who cannot swim must not blame the water.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Strive to be more than number one—strive to be the greatest number one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The say money talks, but I've seen it sing, and even seen it dance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Long ago I decided that at a political meeting the truth usually comes out in just such a speech or a remark ignored at the time because its tone is not that of the meeting. Humorous, or satirical, or even angry or bitter — yet it’s the truth, and all the long speeches and contributions are nonsense.
Doris Lessing
Sociopaths are attracted to politics because the see it as a sphere in which you can be ruthless and step all over people. That fact that some politicians can tell such awful lies is another example of sociopathy. Sociopaths lie—they see nothing wrong with it.
Alexander McCall Smith
Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.
Doris Lessing