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Quotes by Zimbabwean Authors

"Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Profiting from opportunities is success. Profiting from adversity is greatness."
"Your inner light lights up your outer world."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Your inner light lights up your outer world."
"The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late."
"Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power."
"Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Though you are as a drop in the ocean, without you, the universe would be empty."
"By lighting another's candle you brighten your own."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"By lighting another's candle you brighten your own."
"The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you."
"Never try to separate soul-mates, destiny might electrocute you."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Never try to separate soul-mates, destiny might electrocute you."
"When you count your blessings, count life twice."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"When you count your blessings, count life twice."
"Stars cannot achieve their highest potential without the dark."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Stars cannot achieve their highest potential without the dark."
"Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt."
"You cannot aspire for greatness and fit in at the same time."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"You cannot aspire for greatness and fit in at the same time."
"Elevate your mind and you elevate your world."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Elevate your mind and you elevate your world."
"Values are the guiding principles through which you make choices and decisions. They are influenced by your beliefs, and will help you uphold a higher standard of personal character."
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Archibald Marwizi
"Values are the guiding principles through which you make choices and decisions. They are influenced by your beliefs, and will help you uphold a higher standard of personal character."
"Stars don't beg the world for attention, their beauty forces us to look up."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Stars don't beg the world for attention, their beauty forces us to look up."
"To succeed and create change, you must be willing to take the risk, with an understanding of a number of key elements. Please begin to understand that an entrepreneurial spirit is not only essential in business enterprise. We all have a business to run in our different areas of specialty. Your life is your business and your family is your business " you have multiple businesses."
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Archibald Marwizi
"To succeed and create change, you must be willing to take the risk, with an understanding of a number of key elements. Please begin to understand that an entrepreneurial spirit is not only essential in business enterprise. We all have a business to run in our different areas of specialty. Your life is your business and your family is your business " you have multiple businesses."
"Self-discovery is a journey of questioning yourself."
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Archibald Marwizi
"Self-discovery is a journey of questioning yourself."
"If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey."
"It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born."
"As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles."
"Present trials strengthen you for future blessings."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Present trials strengthen you for future blessings."
"Your next victory is behind your next test."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Your next victory is behind your next test."
"Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns."
"A diamond is pressure's masterpiece."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"A diamond is pressure's masterpiece."
"Be disciplined enough to choose your network and be willing to sacrifice the circles that reduce your effectiveness and make you unproductive."
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Archibald Marwizi
"Be disciplined enough to choose your network and be willing to sacrifice the circles that reduce your effectiveness and make you unproductive."
"The sky does not despair when a star falls, it makes room for a new one."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"The sky does not despair when a star falls, it makes room for a new one."
"Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Whether your cup is half-full or half-empty, remind yourself there are others without one."
"Critics are loud, but success is louder."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Critics are loud, but success is louder."
"Less fear, more courage. Less doubt, more faith. Less talking, more action. Less ignorance, more knowledge."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Less fear, more courage. Less doubt, more faith. Less talking, more action. Less ignorance, more knowledge."
"You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"You may be poor, but important; uneducated, but wise; lowly, but noble; simple, but insightful; and ordinary, but great."
"The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity."
"The sun does not rise abruptly, but perseveres until it rules the sky."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"The sun does not rise abruptly, but perseveres until it rules the sky."
"Your mind is your world. Your heart is your nature. Your soul is your universe. Your life is your creation."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Your mind is your world. Your heart is your nature. Your soul is your universe. Your life is your creation."
"Hear more than people say. Give more than people ask. Do more than people expect. Achieve more than people imagine."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Hear more than people say. Give more than people ask. Do more than people expect. Achieve more than people imagine."
"A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"A vessel's beauty does not determine how much water it carries."
"It is not your enemies that you need to conquer on the journey to greatness, but yourself."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"It is not your enemies that you need to conquer on the journey to greatness, but yourself."
"The moon cannot outshine the sun."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"The moon cannot outshine the sun."
"The distance between success and your dreams is hard work."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"The distance between success and your dreams is hard work."
"The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories."
"Follow your dreams, not the crowd."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Follow your dreams, not the crowd."
"A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"A slip of the foot is better than a slip of the tongue."
"It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within."
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Archibald Marwizi
"It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within."
"Love's light conquers hate's darkness."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Love's light conquers hate's darkness."
"She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner."
"If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"If you look to money for happiness, you will be disappointed; to power, you will be disillusioned; to honor, you will be dissatisfied; to others, you will be disenchanted; but if you look to God, you will be fulfilled."
"God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"God created sages because He wanted to leave the light on in the universe."
"The mind is the ultimate hallway to the world, the soul is the ultimate stairway to the universe."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"The mind is the ultimate hallway to the world, the soul is the ultimate stairway to the universe."
"Knowing your strengths is intelligence, knowing your weakness is wisdom."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"Knowing your strengths is intelligence, knowing your weakness is wisdom."
"One bee cannot build a hive, one ant cannot build a colony."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"One bee cannot build a hive, one ant cannot build a colony."
"When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them."
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Matshona Dhliwayo
"When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them."
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