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Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors
"The principles that guide your decisions as a leader must not be contradictory to your personal values. Your personal values must lay the strong foundation on which you build your leadership tenets. In becoming a principle-centred leader, these leadership values become your guiding principles and lenses for decision making."
"Dream like a child. Reason like an elder. Play like a youth. Work like an adult."
"It must start by knowing Time = Life. Spending your life on impulse will lead to a broke life, just like impulse buying leads to an empty wallet! How much value you place on your time reflects in the activities that consume your time."
"The greatest gift you can open is your heart to someone in need."
"Ignorance hides in darkness, wisdom hides in light."
"Don't let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams, lions have little in common with sheep."
"If in this generation, you still consider yourself the only one who knows or who has the capacity to make a difference, it's a shame because you are delaying this leadership excellence train from reaching its destination. Make a decision to change your leadership philosophy and agenda today!"
"Talent is like a little seed; when nurtured, it will flourish."
"Everyone is a business person. You must be in the business of managing your time. Managing your time means managing your life. Good time managers are good life managers, and vice versa."
"Words live longer than mortals."
"A wise bird does not lend even the smallest of its feathers to a hunter."
"Love knows the way because love is the way."
"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."
"Be in love with what you do. Love wisdom. Love life. Love people. God is love."
"Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything."
"The need for security and power riding on energies that should be making life better and easier for the masses remains a great error in leadership focus. Why should the discovery of uranium's potential become a curse instead of a blessing? I am sure any type of power (nuclear and leadership included) in the wrong hands has the unfortunate potential to become a curse. A lot more is involved, including greed that causes the wealthy to sponsor violence and chaos. All, in order to profit from conflict, yet disregarding the harm caused to the vulnerable majority."
"Anyone can look up at a mountain, but not everyone can look down from it."
"Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow."
"Stars don't need words to be heard, their beauty speaks for them."
"Smile, even when others do not. Care, even when others will not. Love, even when others could not. Give, even when others cannot."
"The further you venture down a river the bigger the fish."
"Be stimulated to become significant. This might be your back-slap moment. New-born babies born with weak signs of life are given a slap on the back to "stimulate them. It is a knock to wake them up to the reality that they must now take charge. In this world, they have to do their own breathing and their own eating otherwise they will not survive. It's the same in your adulthood and your quest for success, you must take charge because no one will wake up every day to do things for you and make a success out of a life of excuses and laziness."
"If you love a bird don't hold it too tightly or you'll soon be nursing a broken heart."
"Have you positioned yourself to be reachable and accessible by those you seek to serve and make an impact on? Do they know where and how to find you, either physically or in the cyber realm? If they cannot reach you for whatever reason, then you have not done your homework, because you are supposed to have a strategy to reach them before they can even look for you! Otherwise someone else will meet them along the way as they look for you."
"If you invest in your critics more than you invest in your dreams, you have successfully invested in your failure."
"The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship."
"A rose does not need to boast of what the whole world already knows, its beauty."
"Exercise must become a regular part of your day or personal effectiveness system. Do not wait to start exercising because you want to lose weight or because the doctor has given you some scary update on your health. Exercise to keep fit and stay healthy. It's not too late to start now."
"Harsh winters precede pleasant springs."
"Positive thoughts precede positive results."
"Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict."
"Open the door for communication and interact with your children. Provide the answers (if you don't know, look for them or get expert advice). Guide them on how to deal with other sources of information " friends, TV, other media, society or the internet. Coaching empowers them to make their own informed, quality decisions."
"The bird and the elephant drink from the same river."
"Do not plan to die, do not plan for the death of your name or your influence - rather, plan for the resting of a life well lived. Make an eternal mark."
"Learn from mistakes and set-backs (yours and other people's), pick yourself up, make necessary changes and try again. I once came across a saying that went something like, "The wise learn from the mistakes made by fools! So at some point we all have been fools, I suppose, since we all make mistakes."
"Trials are part of the adventure to greatness."
"It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted."
"The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope."
"Allow others to talk about themselves instead of being obsessed about telling them or bragging about yourself and your possessions and achievements. Show a genuine interest in others and allow them to tell their story so you can share the conversation."
"To succeed, with or without money, have deliberate plans to make success out of opportunity. If you are totally dependent on chance, then chances are that you will fail."
"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."
"Greatness is not measured by what you have, but by what you give."
"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."
"Success gives in to those who truly desire her."
"The louder your "I can", the closer your "I've done it!"
"Whilst a level playing field cannot be guaranteed, one thing that is guaranteed is your fair share of challenges. It's not a matter of IF they come, but WHEN you will encounter them."
"The heart's will is greater than the hand's strength."
"A divided mind cannot conquer a united soul."
"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."
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