Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors - Page 5

Ask yourself - How do I see myself as a leader? How do I use my personal mission and vision to create leadership focus? What does my mission or vision mean in the context of leading others? How many people are going to succeed in their endeavours, through my leadership influence? Do I expect of myself, what I expect of those who follow me? Or I have my own separate standards for the same principles I expect others to live by?
Archibald Marwizi
If you disconnect yourself from principles you believe must work for others, then you create a leadership brand that is not genuine and that will lead you to say one thing and practice another. This is the reason why knowledge and mastery issues covered at a personal level, must be revisited with a leadership focus.
Archibald Marwizi
Your vision at a leadership level needs to be more global and selfless, it needs to go beyond you. Reflect and project your dream for a perfect world, even if you can only make it a great world.
Archibald Marwizi
How do you visualize the success of those parts of the world falling under your leadership? What about the success of your organisation, your family and all the people related to the two institutions? How fulfilling are the results of this personal evaluation? What can you start doing about it, today?
Archibald Marwizi
Why is the world in need of a leader like you? You must lead for significant impact. As a leader, find the “cause” driving your leadership brand and pursue its resolution with passion and excellence.
Archibald Marwizi
There are silent killers like poverty, hunger, easily preventable diseases and illnesses, and other related conditions. These remain a daily and ongoing catastrophe, but they rarely manage to achieve and sustain, prime-time headline coverage on the news. Why not report on these until someone acts on them?
Archibald Marwizi
If the UN and other international multilateral institutions are sending troops and weaponry, now they must begin to fund training and leadership development at the same levels. The new war must start with the quality of beliefs and dreams that are planted into the hearts and minds of school children at a personal level and permeate the driving philosophies of entire societies and communities.
Archibald Marwizi
My personal convictions drive me to join those like-minded, in the recruitment of a growing army without guns, no hatred or prejudice, but with a leadership voice of influence and harnessing resources to create the change they desire. The major problems facing the world, particularly our beloved African continent, will not be won by sanctions, cruelty, ethnic cleansing, revenge, guns or bullets. The challenges are not largely externally motivated, so the platform to change them must shift. Shift from selfish to selfless, from external to internal, from behaviours to beliefs. Some of them are externally sponsored but self-inflicted, whilst most of them are due to greed, short-sightedness, abuse and selfishness.
Archibald Marwizi
As you strive for personal effectiveness and leadership excellence, there are local and global questions that you will inevitably have to face. These range from poverty, corruption, terrorism, food security, scarcity of resources and overpopulation among others. Your power and influence for significance in leadership excellence will increase in direct proportion to your ability to find effective and sustainable practical solutions to some of these real-life challenges.
Archibald Marwizi
Realistic and unrealistic expectations will be placed on you, demands will be made, fair and unfair judgment will be passed. Your growing leadership intelligence should reflect in your objective response or reaction to these challenges – remember more eyes than you can see are watching you. Know when it is prudent to make a comment, to set the record straight or just not comment. Decide which invitations to accept and which ones to send a representative or to turn down. Continuously reflecting on your mission, beliefs and values will make this process more objective.
Archibald Marwizi
Because leaders and influential people are just as human as any other person, they sometimes forget that by doing little extra things to become extraordinary means they no longer have a completely private life. You must be willing to pay this price because if you don’t, the consequences can be more disastrous. Learn to plan and be deliberate in also ensuring you and your family can still enjoy quality private moments.
Archibald Marwizi
Now that you are a leader. Everyone will want to know what you are doing and feel at liberty to comment or scrutinize even your private life. The world will become interested in your family life, your health, your achievements but most interestingly your shortcomings.
Archibald Marwizi
The call to leadership excellence means you must now be awake to the reality that you are no longer your own, you are a blessing to society. In business, this will also mean value given to shareholders, customers, employees as well as society. This will take you, your family and your corporate base to appreciate that your leadership role and influence demands that they share you with other causes and stakeholders. As an effective person, you must be able to balance the demands on you and create the additional time that leadership at a higher level requires.
Archibald Marwizi
The primary challenge for any aspiring public office bearer is to have a well-defined cause and diligently represent that cause until a significant impact is witnessed. Adhering to value-based leadership principles must be at the top of the priority list for public office aspirants.
Archibald Marwizi
The role of political leadership in any society will remain critical to the socio-economic progression of the world. It is however worrying to see the growing number of people, including the youth, getting into politics for economic gain and not for a cause. This, inter alia, is the contaminated seed and eventual root of chronic corruption because such leadership will always be selfishly seeking gain and enrichment from their roles and offices.
Archibald Marwizi
The leadership challenge for celebrities and those in the limelight includes turning focus from being self-centred to influencing vulnerable and gullible youngsters, especially teenagers, in a positive way; realising that it is possible to entertain and increase following without promoting societal vices like drug & alcohol abuse, irresponsible sexual behaviour, prejudice of all kinds, criminal heroism, gangsterism and all forms of violence.
Archibald Marwizi
Most entertainers and celebrities realize the influencing power they possess. The sad reality is that those in the know tend to utilise that power with a lack of mission, beliefs and values which could translate to a positive impact of their talent on the lives as well as missions of those who form their fan-base. Their agenda tends to be self-centred but it can change.
Archibald Marwizi
A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your attitude is your greatest capital in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Your belief system should be positive and empowering enough to influence a strong mental state and a positive attitude that will rise up to defeat any suggestion that you are destined to fail.
Archibald Marwizi
The key to success in any area of life is to first know and master the area of focus. Cures to disease have been found, since time immemorial, by studying how the body functions as well as how the disease affects the sick. Seek depth in knowledge and research.
Archibald Marwizi
A life that lacks physical exercise and activity leads to lethargy and promotes sickness of both body and mind. Exercise is important because it helps the heart, lungs, muscles and brain to be more efficient in their use of oxygen. Take personal responsibility over what you can control – it’s your life.
Archibald Marwizi
Eat right. It’s not just about too much or too little food. Eating right means knowing the right selection of foods with the right nutrient content and in the right quantities, taken at the right frequencies to maintain a healthy body and mind.
Archibald Marwizi
A hygienic environment, proper waste and sewer disposal, clean water and all efforts that destroy disease-carriers like flies and mosquitoes will reduce the spread of disease and promote good health. My home challenge for a hygienic environment is that we should be responsible enough to make sure we are safe and comfortable eating apples in the toilet and bathroom!
Archibald Marwizi
One key habit I adopted is washing or sanitizing of hands every time, especially after using the toilet, before eating or handling food and whenever I go to visit someone in hospital and after leaving the hospital. Also use proper protective clothing in other circumstances like assisting ailing relatives and friends with communicable diseases.
Archibald Marwizi
Whilst a level playing field cannot be guaranteed, one thing that is guaranteed is your fair share of challenges. It’s not a matter of IF they come, but WHEN you will encounter them.
Archibald Marwizi
Exercise must become a regular part of your day or personal effectiveness system. Do not wait to start exercising because you want to lose weight or because the doctor has given you some scary update on your health. Exercise to keep fit and stay healthy. It’s not too late to start now.
Archibald Marwizi
Numerous studies have proven that physical health and longevity are linked to eating a balanced diet, maintaining proper weight, exercising regularly, abstinence and proper sexual conduct, avoiding tobacco and alcohol, maintaining a clean and hygienic living and working environment, knowing and keeping track of your health status all the time. How do you rate yourself on all these?
Archibald Marwizi
Smile more.Laugh more.Love more.Shine more.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Feeding a lion will never make him your friend.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The struggle hurts now but will be sweet in times of retrospect.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The greatest gift you can open is your heart to someone in need.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Pride destroys a man quicker than ignorance.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Tomorrow belongs to those who learn today.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Courage treats the weak better than fear treats the strong.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The mind does not need four walls to make you its prisoner.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Envy is admiration laced with resentment.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The heart’s will is greater than the hand’s strength.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If you try to hide a star behind a dark veil, it will still shine through it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To be a good leader, win minds; to be a great leader, win heart’s; and to be an extraordinary leader, win souls.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change by using it to their advantage.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The prettiest flower still had to struggle to surface.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Calm yourself and you calm your storm.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Alone a candle can only light a room, but in thousands they can even light a city.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The ordinary think inside of the box, the extraordinary think outside of the box, but genius thinks inside, outside, below and above the box.
Matshona Dhliwayo
I have the soul of a white man, the soul of a black man, the soul of an Asian man; the soul of every man.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You don’t have to pay the sun to rise, the moon to shine, and the stars to glow.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The spirit of excellence exorcises the demon of mediocrity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
There is no greater beast than envy, no greater thief than fear, no greater enemy than greed, no greater predator than wrath, and no greater poison than bitterness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Work keeps us occupied. Faith keeps us fortified. Hope keeps us gratified. Love keeps us satisfied.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wealth is a small blessing, health is a great asset, happiness is an extraordinary treasure, and life is a remarkable reward.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You cannot lead an enemy to Heaven, but you can lead a friend even to Hell.
Matshona Dhliwayo
One who conquers others is great, one who conquers the world is mighty, but one who conquers himself is divine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in the darkest hour that a star reveals its brightest light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Life kept throwing me storms, but I kept finding rainbows.
Matshona Dhliwayo