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Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors
"Love is free, but priceless. Wisdom is precious, but costless. Faith is gentle, but fearless. Joy is scarce, but limitless. Truth is simple, but matchless."
"If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly."
"Ignore your haters. Resist your fears. Embrace your dreams."
"At times the challenges will displace us or some of the things that are important to us. If we strengthen our belief system from within " those challenges must inevitably begin to float away and not take root or force us to sink."
"If a man could outpace his shadow, he would still find it waiting for him at the finishing line."
"Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair."
"Pray patiently. Pray purposefully. Pray painstakingly. Pray perfectly."
"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."
"If you are going through hell, keep walking until you reach heaven."
"Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better."
"The most reliable friend you have is your shadow."
"To achieve peace let go of: guilt, anger, and bitterness. To achieve happiness embrace: virtue, faith, and love."
"The sweetest apples are eaten first."
"Slipping into bad attitudes and habits is like a beautiful queen growing older and uglier compared to the defined mission and personal standards. Time and again everyone who is serious about making their success more deliberate needs to stop by the mirror in their own mind and ask, "Mirror, mirror in my mind, am I still on course to succeed in life?"
"A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance."
"When you have defined your mission, values and attitudes in the context of leadership influence and excellence, you also need to conduct a personal audit, checking how aligned they are to your current leadership practices. Where necessary, begin to make adjustments."
"There are no speed limits on the road to love, that is why some arrive instantly."
"True love doesn't have an expiry date, it is eternal."
"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."
"A lion is not afraid of walking alone, even if the whole jungle is pursuing it."
"Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten."
"Breaking from the herd is better than getting lost in it."
"Just imagine the strides Africa would have made if all the resources being channeled towards conflict resolution were going into construction of power generation plants and irrigation capacity. Can't we promote our own peace? What are we doing to seriously focus on other eco-friendly energy sources like wind and solar?"
"If you are going to grow in personal effectiveness, you must become an excellent communicator. Achieving your goals and fulfilling your mission calls for communication excellence verbally, vocally and non-verbally. As you grow in this regard, you make forward strides towards significance " the capacity to make contributions that count and matter."
"You can use and see the power of words contributing towards your success, and this comes from having an empowering belief system. Living and functioning from an empowering belief system is the spring board for making your success more deliberate."
"What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success."
"Use your mind's talents diligently, your heart's powers incredibly, and your soul's genius profitably."
"If you try to test a river's depths with both feet, you will drown."
"Don't resent the sky for its storms, esteem it for its rainbows."
"We all come into the world rocks, but the enlightened leave it diamonds."
"A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner."
"There must be a clear distinction between wishing and believing. A wish is a hazy thread of desires that leaves room for the winds of doubt to toss it about, meaning it might happen by chance or not. A belief has no equivocation; it is clear, stubborn and deliberate in taking hold of what remains yet unseen by the physical eye. If there is no visible way, a belief will draft the way, create the way, walk the path and reach the desired destination."
"A wolf only attends a rabbit's funeral to eat its young."
"Strength comes from ignoring your critics. Power comes from mastering your fears. Fortitude comes from wrestling your opponents. Superiority comes from overcoming your losses. Greatness comes from conquering your weaknesses."
"If your present thoughts do not lift you higher than your previous ones, rid yourself of them."
"The strong overcome their opponents, the mighty crush them, the shrewd outwit them, the cowardly hide from them, but the enlightened transcend them."
"A flower blooming in the desert proves to the world that adversity, no matter how great, can be overcome."
"A leader must produce other leaders. Why do you want to produce followers, when by being called a leader the assumption is that you already have followers? Influence those who follow to birth their kind and develop others to lead."
"Fear takes you low, faith takes you high, but love takes you everywhere."
"Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you."
"Success can never be enjoyed if there is no congruity or alignment of your beliefs, values and how you behave in attaining your achievements."
"If you fish without proper bait, you will only catch disappointment."
"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!"
"A little drop each day eventually fills the sea."
"Make your own luck, and then share it with others."
"Liars corrupt knowledge, and fools pervert wisdom, but the wise hallow both. Knowledge holds the truth."
"When I was young, I believed God was a woman because I couldn't come up with any other explanation as to why the universe was so tidy."
"One who trusts God at all costs will be rewarded at all costs."
"Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned many into activists."
"When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it."
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