{"quotes":[{"text":"Your youth is certainly finished and old age has definitely arrived if you feel that you are losing enthusiasm, excitement and energy towards your dreams and goals.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["aim","aims","dream","dreams","energetic","energy","enthusiasm","enthusiastic","excite","excitement","exciting","goal","goals","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","old-age","old-aged","philosophy","target","targets","wisdom","wisdom","youth","youth-age","youthful","youthfulness"],"id":2142,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"If life throws you a few bad notes or vibrations, don't let them interrupt or alter your song.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["achievement","aims","ambition","attitude","confidence","determination","doubts","dreams","drive","endurance","energies","energy","failure","focus","goals","happiness","inspiration","inspirational","life","mood","motivation","motivational","music","negative","notes","optimism","perspective","positive","quotes","song","stumbling-blocks","success","vibes","vibrations"],"id":22171,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Make today a gift to your future self.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["aims","future","gift","inspiration","inspirational","inspired","inspiring","live-better","motivation","time","today","work-harder","yourself"],"id":23697,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["aims","courage","creative-process","empowerment","experience","guenter-grass","memory","record-of-life","strength","writing"],"id":35351,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"Keep going. No matter what you do, no matter how many times you screw up and think to yourself 'there's no point to carry on', no matter how many people tell you that you can't do it - keep going. Don't quit. Don't quit because a month from now you will be that much closer to your goal than you are now. Yesterday you said tomorrow. Make today count.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["aim","aims","carry-on","continue","discouraging","don-t-quit","dreams","encourage","go-on","goals","inspiration","inspirational","inspiring","keep-going","month","never-give-up","nevermind","people","think","today","tomorrow","yesterday"],"id":47744,"author_id":"Anonymous"},{"text":"One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.","author":"M.H. Rakib","tags":["aims","confidence","goals","hardwork","life","to-rack-up"],"id":56783,"author_id":"M.H.+Rakib"},{"text":"There is only One Man Playing your Game, You!","author":"Vineet Raj Kapoor","tags":["aims","desires","dreams","effort","game","game-design","gameplay","gamification","life","pursuit"],"id":62359,"author_id":"Vineet+Raj+Kapoor"},{"text":"You have to know your goal to reach out for it.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["aim-higher","aims","courage","determination","determined-spirit","educational-philosophy","educational","goals","goals-and-plans","goals","great-expectations","inspirational","learning-process","learning","positive-thinking","success","wisdom","wise","wishes"],"id":66317,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, 'It isn't fair' about everything else.","author":"Lois Lowry","tags":["achievement","aims","ambition","dedication","determination","difficulties","dreams","equality","fairness","hardships","life","perseverance","success","trials"],"id":71177,"author_id":"Lois+Lowry"},{"text":"Not that I would not, if I could, be both handsome ...And well-dressed, and a great athlete, and make a million a year, be a wit, a bon-vivant, and a lady-killer, as well as a philosopher; a philanthropist, statesman, warrior, and African explorer, as well as a ‘tone poet’ and saint. But the thing is simply impossible…Such different characters may conceivably at the outset of life be alike possible to a man. But to make any one of them actual, the rest must more or less be suppressed. So the seeker of his truest, strongest, deepest self must review the list carefully, and pick out the one on which to stake his salvation. All other selves thereupon become unreal….","author":"William James","tags":["aims","goal-setting","health","perfectionism","self-improvement"],"id":94367,"author_id":"William+James"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}