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Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors
"If a fly lands on your food, do not use a hammer to remove it."
"Diamonds are formed in pressure, that is why God allows you to go through difficult times."
"The most valuable things in your life are always the things that money cannot buy."
"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."
"Those who envy you inadvertently admit to being inferior to you."
"Don't aim to break the glass ceiling, aim to shatter it."
"Singing in a storm silences thunder's threats."
"It is imperative that you grow, because your personal growth and development is one of the most important things to you. Your growth is good for you " it must be deliberate."
"Internalising success means that even if a misfortune takes away all the evidence or traces of success, yet what made you successful, remains. Soon enough, the evidence will return."
"The first step to accomplishing the impossible is to achieve it in your mind."
"The greater your destiny the greater your troubles."
"A flower's beauty is birthed in a seed's ugly struggles."
"Do not seek success just for the sake of succeeding or for self-gratification. Seek a life of impact and significance."
"Your mind can imagine what others cannot. Your heart can sense what others cannot. Your soul can receive what others cannot. Your feet can go where others cannot. Your hands can do what others cannot."
"Alone a candle can only light a room, but in thousands they can even light a city."
"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."
"A bird cannot love freely when caged."
"It is difficult to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of doubt, impossible to soar to your destiny carrying the burden of fear, but conceivable to soar to your destiny carried by the wings of faith."
"Show me your talents and I'll show you your net worth."
"Programming means your mindset, thought processes and frame of reference must be correctly wired and mapped to enable the incubation of thoughts and ideas that lead to success. Your subconscious mind is key in this process and will always look for ways and means, night and day, to fulfil and implement the thoughts that are always fed into it. It is your faithful servant. I call it the connection between God and man. It is an essential part of the human spirit."
"First accept the reality that we are all prejudiced because we have things and issues we have biases towards or against, based on our beliefs, thoughts and experiences. Accept that it is possible to differ on opinions, beliefs and philosophies without necessarily becoming inhumane or acrimonious towards each other."
"I am your earth if you want me to be. I am your sky if you want me to be. I am your sun if you want me to be. I am your world if you want me to be. I am your universe if you want me to be."
"At a leadership level, there is need to become aware of the realities required to lead and deliver value to people and groups, some who might have values and beliefs that significantly differ from your own. The ability to objectively strike this balance will indicate your level of leadership maturity."
"Every leader must be challenged to educate their followers and capacitate them with knowledge, tools and a voice to champion their own causes and become actively involved in setting the agenda for citizen participation in social transformation. Don't create a dependent constituency; develop and lead other leaders who demonstrate a growing personal responsibility for their own success as well as for those around them."
"Don't downgrade your dreams to upgrade your relationships."
"Step by step a mountain is conquered."
"The setting of SMART goals has been written about extensively over the decades, but will only be as useful as the extent to which its principles are used."
"An apple only falls far from its tree when carried away by divine winds."
"Greatness in your body is strength. Greatness in your mind is wisdom. Greatness in your heart is faith. Greatness in your soul is love. Greatness in your life is God."
"Love has never been conquered, not even by the greatest army."
"Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality."
"Without clarity and motivation, your vision will remain a wish in dream-land. It takes an action-centred and results-driven work ethic to execute your duties and responsibilities, to make your success more deliberate."
"The key to success is to first know thyself. The definition of success by another person must not paralyse you or make you think less of your potential to succeed in your own way."
"Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove."
"Change in leadership brands must be influenced and proactively effected at a personal level, it can never be forced from outside with sustainable effectiveness. Saddam Hussein, Muammar al Gaddafi and Hosni Mubarak are all political trophies, yet the effects of the military or "civil initiatives that toppled them, are nothing to be proud of considering what continues to happen in countries like Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria, after the use of force to bring political change."
"As you grow and develop your talent and skill " you must begin to create a demand for what you possess as a personal brand."
"Your words are powerful containers, carrying blessings or curses depending on what is inside of you. If you harbour bitterness in you, you will speak spitefully and create hurt and hatred in those you speak with. If there is love inside of you, you will release pleasant and caring words that create appreciation, gratitude and warmth in those around you."
"The mind is a god, it creates its own reality."
"You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve."
"Love knows the way because love is the way."
"An ugly jar full of water is worth more than an empty beautiful one in the desert."
"Harsh winters precede pleasant springs."
"Everything you love, enjoy, respect or value will somehow find top priority, even without excessive conscious reminders. Show respect through the way you manage time, especially when others are involved or affected."
"Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats."
"If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing."
"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."
"The truth is that we all have what it takes to succeed and the fact is that not everyone will attain what they define success to be."
"Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn't mean you have to join the circus."
"The heart's will is greater than the hand's strength."
"Let your resolution and confession be, 'I will change these things because I want to succeed, and I want to succeed because it will bring me the happiness I seek and desire."
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