{"quotes":[{"text":"In order to answer the question “Where am I going?” engage in self-development, self-education and development of will and firmness.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["firmness","goal","mission","purpose","self-development","self-education","will"],"id":5831,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["compassion","firmness","hope","saving","teaching"],"id":59879,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adversity","affliction","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","austerity","be-determined","be-persistent","be-tenacious","carry-on","challenge","challenges","continue","deprivation","destitution","determination","difficult","difficulties","dire-straits","distress","doggedness","dream","dreamer","dreamers","endurance","entrepreneur","entrepreneurs","firmness","follow-through","funny","give-up","go-on","go-the-distance","hammer-away","hang-in-there","hang-on","hardship","hardships","hilarious","hold-on","humor","humorous","humour","impecuniousness","indefatigability","inspiration","inspire","intransigence","joke","jokes","keep-at-it","keep-going","keep-on","leave-no-stone-unturned","mental-strength","mentally-strong","misery","misfortune","motivate","motivation","need","neediness","never-give-up","not-take-no-for-an-answer","obduracy","obstinacy","pain","patience","penury","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","pertinacity","plod-on","plug-away","poverty","press-ahead","press-on","privation","problem","problems","purposefulness","quotations","quotes","resoluteness","resolution","resolve","satire","soldier-on","stamina","stand-fast","stand-firm","startup","startups","staunchness","stay-the-course","staying-power","steadfastness","stick-it-out","stoic","stoicism","stoics","stop-at-nothing","strength","strength-of-purpose","strong","struggle-on","stubbornness","suffer","suffering","tenacity","tirelessness","travails","trial","trials","trials-and-tribulations","tribulation","tribulations","trouble","venture-capitalist","venture-capitalists","want","wretchedness"],"id":63742,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (...)Response [by Lady Rectitude]: 'Fair sweet friend, have you not yet heard the saying that the fool sees well enough a small cut in the face of his neighbour, but he disregards the great gaping one above his own eye? I will show you the great contradiction in what the men say about the changeability and inconstancy of women. It is true that they all generally insist that women are very frail [= fickle] by nature. And since they accuse women of frailty, one would suppose that they themselves take care to maintain a reputation for constancy, or at the very least, that the women are indeed less so than they are themselves. And yet, it is obvious that they demand of women greater constancy than they themselves have, for they who claim to be of this strong and noble condition cannot refrain from a whole number of very great defects and sins, and not out of ignorance, either, but out of pure malice, knowing well how badly they are misbehaving. But all this they excuse in themselves and say that it is in the nature of man to sin, yet if it so happens that any women stray into any misdeed (of which they themselves are the cause by their great power and longhandedness), then it's suddenly all frailty and inconstancy, they claim. But it seems to me that since they do call women frail, they should not support that frailty, and not ascribe to them as a great crime what in themselves they merely consider a little defect.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["clichés","constancy","double-standards","empowerment","feminism","firmness","frailty","gender","hypocrisy","inequality","men","misogyny","morality","preconceptions","prejudice","sin","slander","social-norms","stereotypes","strength-of-character","vice","virtue","women"],"id":85147,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"Pulling a great substance from a higher height whilst leaning on a slippery ground with the mentality of having the substance whilst standing is a thought of fantasy. You may only result in falling with the substance.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["falling","fantasy","firmness","inspirational","misleading-notion","motivational","preparation","preparedness","psyche","wisdom"],"id":125047,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"You have to be firm, persistent, passionate, and driven by the idea and have a strong desire to bring your product to the market.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","desire","driven","firm","firmness","idea","market","passion","passionate","persistence","persistent","product","purpose","strong","strong-desire"],"id":176469,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"It is necessary to grow up in maturity, firmness and courage in order to reach the goal.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["courage","firmness","goal","grow","growth","maturity"],"id":209475,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"If you can't be real and firm with others about who you are, you will be doomed to a phony, plastic bullshit existence, where you only live for others.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["existence","firmness","life","phony","reality","teaching"],"id":237498,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"When you star arises, your cloud of opposition awakens.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["clouds","daring","firmness","motivational","oppositions-in-life","problems","problems","psyche","stars","tenacity"],"id":285294,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["determination","failure","firmness","objective","persistence","purpose","resolution","resolve","richelle","richelle-goodrich","success"],"id":307002,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}