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Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors
"True gratitude ascends to the highest altitudes."
"Benchmark against the top performing movers and shakers in your game. What are the skills required to achieve excellence in your area of specialty as a leader? How are you managing your vision and mission? Do you demonstrate a life lived with clear goals and targets? How are you providing direction, influence and developing others to lead? What is the evidence of the good leadership of your team?"
"Stars don't beg the sky to shine."
"The uglier the storm the lovelier the rainbow."
"One bright star is better than a thousand dull moons."
"Utilizing all of your mind is a step towards brilliance. Utilizing all of your heart is a step towards excellence. Utilizing all of your soul is a step towards nobleness. Utilizing all of your mind, heart, and soul is a step towards greatness."
"To become successful, do the little extra things that ordinary people refuse to do. The little extra hard work, little extra practice, little extra studying and the little extra positive attitude."
"We don't have the same backgrounds, we do not possess the same skills or talents, we are not from the same generation, and neither do we have access to the same platform to shine. Things are not equal and life is not constant " there will never be the so-called level playing field."
"Society in its boundless ignorance ridicules the caterpillar but praises the butterfly."
"You get what you work for, not what you think you deserve."
"If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size."
"The real strength of a man is not in the size of his muscles, but in the size of his heart."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else's shadow, they might wilt."
"Tomorrow belongs to those who learn today."
"If adventurers were cowardly, no one would have crossed the nations; if sailors were fearful, no one would have crossed the oceans; if pilots were gutless, no one would have crossed the skies."
"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."
"Everyone comes with baggage, marry the one whose baggage weighs the least."
"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."
"Bricks on your back are easier to carry than pebbles on your soul."
"The tree that stands to the tempest is strong; the tree that refuses to bend, the strongest."
"They gave me a thousand reasons to leave you, but I found a thousand and one reasons to be with you."
"The principles of stewardship and servant leadership challenge you to look at leadership differently. Consider these values."
"When you face challenges, threats and prospects for failure, when you are out of money or job, when health is deteriorating and death seems to beckon " any hope for success against all those odds takes a solid empowering belief system that will believe " hope is still there. You must choose to adopt positive and empowering beliefs."
"Raging winds and clashing seasshould not keep you from victory. Stormy winds and raging seasgive birth to great destinies."
"Guide humbly. Guide happily. Guide hopefully. Guide honorably."
"You are in obscurity when you are still needed but no one cares a lot what you say or think, or even where you are working from. You have no voice or presence that makes you relevant. Grow your voice."
"Dream with all of your mind. Work with all of your heart. Persevere with all of your strength. Succeed with all of your soul."
"Be good to those who are good, and just to those who are not; this is true wisdom. Do good unto others, not expecting them to do good unto you."
"One who has great faith has great power."
"Happy is the man who marries the woman he wants, happier is the man who marries the woman he needs."
"The mind dies, but its thoughts live on. The heart perishes, but its experiences live on. The body expires, but its spirit lives on."
"With wisdom in your mind, you can perform great deeds. With faith in your heart, you can perform extraordinary deeds. With love in your soul, you can perform remarkable deeds. With God in your life, you can perform supernatural deeds."
"Love is your religion, the whole world is your temple."
"A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine."
"Excellence is the key that opens successes' door."
"The heavens shine on us, but God shines in us."
"Listen until you're the smartest. Learn until you're the wisest. Live until you're the merriest. Love until you're the kindest."
"Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up."
"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."
"Ask your wife for forgiveness, even when you're right."
"Teach faith as a non-negotiable - What should your family be aware of? Why should they be aware of these things? How will they become aware? When and at what stages must they become aware?"
"If you stand in the way of two people who were meant to be together, destiny's train will run you over."
"Success is climbing all the way up failure's steep ladder."
"When everybody is planting apples a visionary plants oranges."
"The soul was the first temple, love was the first religion."
"The clearest mirror in the universe is not made of glass, but of a loving soul."
"One who is lost cannot show others the way."
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