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Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors
"What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood."
"Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements."
"A river cannot boast to a sea."
"Sages are soldiers on the war on ignorance."
"If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows."
"True champions, like the sun, cannot be eclipsed for long."
"Your clock cannot buy you more time, your bed cannot get you more sleep, your titles cannot acquire you more influence, your fame cannot gain you more honor, and your money cannot earn you more happiness."
"Global summits are necessary to discuss and strategise, but will never be the platform that will uproot the seeds of hatred, intolerance, polluted beliefs and passionate convictions that fuel whatever we term terrorism. The excelling leader should be thinking of dealing with the soil and the seed, how do you make sure the soil is not polluted and how do you counter the retrogressive seed that is being planted?"
"Terrorist groups will not, in most instances, openly recruit from universities or the well developed areas that politicians and business leaders are always focusing on. They will not flight newspaper or TV adverts, but will use belief systems riding on the back of disadvantages, poverty and problems that have remained unaddressed in particular communities, tribal and religious ideologies. They will recruit the most vulnerable to harm and attack the most vulnerable, in order to spite leaders and authorities."
"When destiny is calling even the deaf can hear him."
"Don't try to make everyone happy, you can't. The only ones who try are clowns."
"A leadership comfort zone brings stagnancy, deprives one of innovation, stifles growth and frustrates both the leader and the team they lead. Your personal preferences like leadership style, communication style, prejudices, habits and mannerisms must be effectively managed so that they do not work against you. You have to be careful that your strengths do not end up becoming a hindering comfort zone. Seek to lead, driven by a cause."
"Anger has strength, hate has might, but love has power."
"Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread."
"Women are like shadows; when you chase them, they run from you; when you run from them, they chase you."
"A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies."
"Wisdom is a sharp chisel to carve out your future."
"It is impossible for light to bow before darkness."
"It is impossible for a star to shine and not get noticed, even in the dark."
"You cannot lead an enemy to Heaven, but you can lead a friend even to Hell."
"The mind shrinks or expands in proportion to one's wisdom; the heart, in proportion to one's courage; and the soul, in proportion to one's love."
"Be knowledgeable. Be logical. Be affable. Be trustable."
"The greatest gift you can open is your arms to someone in need."
"Stumbling towards greatness is better than sprinting towards mediocrity."
"One who forgives his enemies conquers them, one who loves his enemies conquers himself."
"Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom."
"With strength you can move rocks. With faith you can move mountains. With love you can move the world."
"Love does not wear out the heart, even if it weighs a thousand tons."
"A fish is a genius in water. An eagle is a genius in air. A fox is a genius on land. A sage is a genius in life."
"Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns."
"Brave cubs become fierce lions."
"Where others only see bricks, train your eyes to see a palace."
"In knowledge there is strength, in understanding there is might, and in wisdom there is power."
"A man who boasts he's the head of the home must never forget the woman is the knife at his throat."
"Wisdom is a teacher, God is its professor. The wise are His students, life is His rod, and eternal life is our reward."
"Think innocently. Think intelligently. Think imaginatively. Think inventively."
"Women never stalk men, they just research them intensely."
"One does not become a great swimmer by swimming in shallow waters."
"Cherish all. Depend on few. Hurt none. Love everyone."
"When you reach the mountaintop look upand think of how high you must leap to reach the stars."
"Folly plots a fool's death from the moment they become friends. Wisdom bestows blessings upon a wise man from the moment they wed."
"Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably. To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably."
"A strong ant is better than a weak lion."
"When I was poor, I was rich because I was happy; when I was wealthy, I was poor because I was sad."
"In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion."
"It is the strongest, not the prettiest birds that conquer the sky."
"A full mind is more valuable than a full bank account."
"A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn't want to break."
"Your unwillingness to change to my view point is purely on the justifiable basis that you have your own strongly held beliefs about important life issues."
"An entrepreneurial spirit makes you someone who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business enterprise, talent or calling to become an agent of change."
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