{"quotes":[{"text":"The glorious presence of God is with us. Let us rise in mighty strength to build the nation.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["africa","belief","church","ghana","god","humanity","leaders","motivation","nation","peace","religion","spiritual","strength","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita","world-leaders","world-peace"],"id":14855,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["achieve","advice","africa","aim-high","ambition","arts","believe","calling","college","country","desire","destiny","dream","dream-and-reality","dreams-inspirational","educational-philosophy","encourage-yourself","encouragement","faith-hope","ghana","gods-grace","great-people","great-souls","greatness","humanity","inspiraton","lailah-gifty-akita","living-hope","living-your-best-life","living-your-dreams","mankind","mission","motivation","music","nation","people","places","positive-thinking","positivity","possible","potential","purpose-in-life","reaching-higher","reaching-people","religion","save-souls","school","self-determination","self-motivation","self-realization","wisdom","wishes","world","you-can-be","your-destiny","your-journey"],"id":18647,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.","author":"Nana Ama Amamoo","tags":["africa","education","ghana"],"id":32702,"author_id":"Nana+Ama+Amamoo"},{"text":"The city is dirty due to the laziness of the citizens in the country.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","clean-up","community-service","country","environmental-degradation","ghana","humanity","inspiring","laziness","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita"],"id":62683,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Nkrumah declared that we faced neither East nor West but we faced forward. But, see, we can face forward and just look at the horizon. Sometimes, as I think of Ghana, I am tempted to believe that we kept looking East and West and never made up our minds, so we just stood still.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["africa","ghana"],"id":82369,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"How can the nation be mightier, without unity of its citizens?","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["africa","buil","citizen","ghana","nation","patriotism","philosophy","political-philosophy","politics","unity","wisdom","wise"],"id":108546,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["ghana","gifts","humanity","inspirational","job","job-seeking","jobless","people","problems","society","talents","work"],"id":111397,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Don’t wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["africa","ghana","inspiration","motivational","youth"],"id":111956,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"},{"text":"Every child must be taught how to think, read and write.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","africa","book-lovers","books","children","children-books","education","formal-and-informal-education","ghana","inspiration","learning","learning-process","life","literacy","motivation","read","reading","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita","wise-words","write","writing"],"id":128879,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.","author":"Nana Awere Damoah","tags":["africa","development","ghana"],"id":134665,"author_id":"Nana+Awere+Damoah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}