{"quotes":[{"text":"Until you let go of that bitterness in your heart, it will find a comfortable place to destroy your dreams, your sight and most times, your sleep.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["anger","angry","big-dreams","bitter","bitterness","comfortable","dream-big","dreams","food-for-thought","hate","haters","hatred","heart","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","love","lover","loving","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","sight","sleep"],"id":960,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"It is not just about what you can do that will make you a leader. It is about how well you can do it.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["better","excel","excellence","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr"],"id":2549,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Would people be excited about your departure from the earth or they would wish you should come back again and again if possible?","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["burial","dead","death","die","earth","food-for-thought","funeral","impact","impacts","influence","influential","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","legacies","legacy","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr"],"id":3310,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["almighty-god","bible","christ","christ-jesus","creator","destiny","direction","directions","directions-in-life","food-for-thought","god","godly","holy-spirit","influence","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","jesus","jesus-christ","leaders","leadership","life","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","purpose","purpose-of-life","saint","saints","scripture"],"id":3811,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["earn","food-for-thought","impact","impacts","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","salary","wage","wages"],"id":7805,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A dream without an action is like a fish without gills. It can’t survive.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["act","action","big-dreams","dream-big","fish","fishes","food-for-thought","gill","gills","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","survive","swim","swimming"],"id":7906,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["change","change-maker","controversial","controversy","convenience","convenient","critical","food-for-thought","high-places","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","make-a-change","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","strength","strong"],"id":9253,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization - black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion and love.... What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.","author":"Robert F. Kennedy","tags":["compassion","eulogy","martin-luther-king-jr","racism"],"id":12400,"author_id":"Robert+F.+Kennedy"},{"text":"You can decide to refuse to allow people who aim at hating you to achieve their aims.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["aim","grudge","hate","hatred","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","love","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","mlk"],"id":26237,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"No one has the right to pee on your dreams!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["destroy","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","pee","pollute","urinate"],"id":27179,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":171,"pages":18,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}