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Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors
"If your heart truly stops when she looks at you, how come you are still alive?"
"Call your personal board now and discuss the important questions. You cannot invent, re-invent or show creative brilliance without asking pertinent questions. You must demand answers from your life, from your present circumstances or from any challenge you may face. Why can't you change? What does it take to get different results? What else can you do or try?"
"People are different and it is this uniqueness that also makes it imperative for the definition or meaning of success be left to each individual to determine."
"The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love."
"Pray for your needs, not your greed."
"Originality is the death of mediocrity."
"If you invite a snake into your home, do not be surprised if it bites you."
"Due to poaching and global warming, future generations will not be able to see some animal and plant species given the rate at which they are disappearing from the forests and seas. Both vices are man-made and man must be challenged and confronted on these global issues. Park rangers, armies and nature conservation trusts are still grappling to find lasting solutions " will you join them in this fight?"
"No matter how great you are at what you do, as long as you remain known only within your own family circles, then you and your talent will die in obscurity and irrelevance. Position yourself to influence the masses by having a media, marketing and communication strategy."
"You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim."
"Never underestimate the power of thought. It takes days and nights of pre-meditating ideas, thoughts, pictures and visions of what you would call success. Allow your mind to be pregnant with the thought of success and how you want to achieve it. This will enable you not to be shocked by your own success when you finally achieve it, because you would have lived it countless times before."
"Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders."
"If you cannot see it in your mind, then it becomes difficult to get. If you can personally visualize it, it becomes easier and more realistic to achieve."
"It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river."
"Whilst personal effectiveness focuses more on your personal development goals as you become the best practitioner in your area of specialty, leadership excellence shifts the focus to your leadership development in making a difference to the greater circle within your areas of influence and beyond. Leadership excellence focuses on areas of concern on behalf of others because a leader is expected to grow from personal effectiveness to begin making a significant impact on the world around them."
"Even if the creative brilliance sparks only once, it needs to be accelerated and developed so it has self-sustaining strategies to continue adding value to both the initiator and those it serves."
"The early bird gets the first worm, but the wisest bird gets the fattest one."
"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
"Realise your Stewardship role as a parent " you raise children to offer a quality gift to society. Even your spouse should not be treated as an object or possession you own; support them to be the best of what they were created to be. Do your part and trust God for the rest. If you have empowered them, trust them to be responsible."
"It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process."
"Sometimes you may feel like your life is submerged in life's relentless challenges, but you can develop the kind of internal substance in you that displaces every negativity, fear and self-doubt. Even if the challenges were bigger and heavy on your soul and life, the new attitude and belief within will displace every challenge before you - then the law of buoyancy will begin to force your challenges to be ejected out of your pathway to success."
"When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, "My life has just begun."
"The great are like the sun, even when hidden from the world they still shine."
"To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself."
"Your mind must be prepared to face some kind of 'failure' or mistakes " take the lessons, face the consequences even if embarrassing, and march on."
"Consider your will to be the vision of your influence on earth after you cease to be a part of it. Crafting a lasting legacy means you start planning and making it possible now."
"Excellence is the key that opens successes' door."
"The heavens shine on us, but God shines in us."
"Treat marriage like a diamond necklace; if broken, fix it, but do not throw it away."
"Taking your own life could become the ultimate failure, because you will be killing and closing the existing door to a chance that might have been waiting to lead you into another path."
"Don't trust a mirror that only tells you how wonderful you look."
"Some people are known, they have the platform and presence, but still remain irrelevant. They know you and what you do, but they don't need you or your offering. I see too many people with a platform but without substance, again this is not sustainable. Lack of substance can only relegate your talent or skill towards the league of the mediocre, if at all you become much by superficial branding then you will become the best of the worst. You don't have what it takes but you depend on your ability to sell substandard offerings to the market. It will not last for long, but quickly become irrelevant."
"If records refuse to be broken, shatter them."
"Do not define your success in the context of just one situation or challenge you are currently battling or pursuing."
"The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings."
"Invest in your dreams, not in your fears."
"He is a trouble causer who acts without intent. In other words, living on purpose means you must act with known intent. Develop an objective sense that asks the why questions as you pull out action thoughts. Why do I want to do this? Why do I want to do it now? Why do I want to stop this? Why do I want to enter into this agreement? Why do I want to change? You will discover that when you have a known intent, you have enough motivation to sustain the success of your decision."
"Life begins at the edge of your fears."
"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."
"Fortify your mind, bullet proof your heart, strengthen your soul."
"The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it."
"Your leadership skill-set might be what we have been waiting for, to bring order and finality to major challenges that affect the global village. The vast hydroelectric generation capacity in Africa, particularly the Great Lakes region and along the Nile River, still remains unutilized potential not benefiting the people of Africa most of whom continue to live in darkness and depleting the forests looking for wood fuel and more fertile farming land."
"When your own success shocks you, you fail to sustain it and it becomes a curse instead of a blessing. Think through issues and make considerations before you encounter the real situation. Companies invest billions in research and development, including models and simulations to increase chances of success " all in an attempt to make success deliberate for a particular project."
"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."
"The highest form of intelligence is wisdom, the highest form of wisdom is love."
"Women are heavyweight boxers; only, they punch with words, not fists."
"The most beautiful rainbow is the one inside your soul."
"If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness."
"The darkness of the storm determines the brightness of the rainbow."
"Far help seldom solves near troubles."
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