{"quotes":[{"text":"Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accomplish","accomplishment","achieve","achievement","begin","begin-small","beginning","big-dreams","dont-give-up","don-t-quit","dream","dream-big","dreams","food-for-thought","give-up","gold","great","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","missed-opportunity","mistake","mistook","never-give-up","opportunity","persist","persistence","personal-development","press-on","promising","rock","start","start-local","start-small"],"id":13990,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achieve","again","around","compliments","congratulations","content","critic","criticise","criticize","critics","do-it","easy","endurance","endure","few","fewer","food-for-thought","hibernate","israelmore-ayivor","little","look","look-around","master","more","much","opponents","oppose","opposition","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","persistent","praise","quiet","shut-down","shut-up","silence","silent","small","success","try","try-again","watch-and-pray","win","winner"],"id":24287,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key. Don't give up too early; insist to endure to the end... You will never regret it!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["do-it-again","dont-give-up","endurance","endure","food-for-thought","insist","israelmore-ayivor","key","never-give-up","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","regret","resist","resistance"],"id":33486,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Successful people are defined as ordinary people who never gave up on their dreams and passion is the secret of that persistence!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["big-dreams","consistence","consistency","consistent","consistently","define","definition","definition-of-success","dont-give-up","dream-big","dreams","endurance","endure","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","never-give-up","normal","ordinary","ordinary-people","passion","passionate","people","persist","persistence","persistent","secret","success","successful","successful-people"],"id":40302,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The deeper the difficulty in fulfilling a dream, the brighter the outcome of its fulfillment and the sweeter the celebration thereof. 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Just don’t give up!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["consequence","consequences","cut","danger","dangerous","decide","dont-give-up","don-t-look-back","endurance","endure","food-for-thought","give-up","harm","harmful","israelmore-ayivor","little","never-give-up","outcome","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","pinch","press-on","result","results","things"],"id":52164,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Never give up. It might not seem easy at first but in the end, it will all be worth it.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["blessing","employment","finance","job","jobless","joblessness","life","money","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","purpose","time","work"],"id":55707,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["big-dreams","dont-give-up","don-t-quit","dream","dream-big","dreams","food-for-thought","give-up","gold","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","missed-opportunity","mistook","never-give-up","opportunity","persist","persistence","personal-development","rock"],"id":60447,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"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":"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["1st","1st-day","attempt","chance","college","day-one","dont-give-up","endurance","endure","first","first-attempt","first-day","food-for-thought","graduate","israelmore-ayivor","keep-it-up","master","masters-degree","never-give-up","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","school","time","time-tells"],"id":73736,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}