{"quotes":[{"text":"The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["ity","inspirational","inspirational","leaders","leadership","leadership-vs-management","life","life-and-death","life-and-living","life-lessons","life","pleasure","pleasure","pleasures","pleasures-of-life","position","position-yourself","positions","possession","possessions","power","power-death","power-dynamics","vanity"],"id":545,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["anxiety","anxious","character","food-for-thought","hard-work","influence","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","myles-munroe","occupy","position","positions","post","true-leaders","work","work-hard","worried","worry"],"id":16267,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I believe more youths stay out of leadership positions because of the fear of indequacy and criticisms.","author":"Paul Bamikole","tags":["criticism","fear","leadership","positions","youths"],"id":54149,"author_id":"Paul+Bamikole"},{"text":"Why ships won't use roads, is why cars won't travel on oceans. When the position is wrong, the leader won't be right.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-position","bus","car","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-position","ocean","oceans","personal-development","position","positions","right","roads","sea","ship","ships","transportation","wrong-position"],"id":76022,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A “self-leader” is the positively influence you have on yourself and on others without any influence with your titles and positions. You must be able to lead yourself before you can lead others.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["appoint","appointed","appointment","behavior","behaviour","character","commander","elect","elected","election","enthrone","examplary","example","faithful","faithfully","father","followers","function","grey-hair","honest","honesty","human-being","human-face","influence","inspire","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","lead","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","leadership-qualities","manager","officer","opinion","ordain","others","pastor","personal-branding","popular-opinion","position","positions","positive","positively","potential","purpose","qualities","self-leaders","self-leadership","self-made","servant","sincere","sincerity","teacher","titles","true-leader","true-leaders","true-leadership","truthful","truthfulness","universal"],"id":89083,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You can't BREED at a place where you can't BREATHE. Therefore, FIX yourself where you FIT.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["breathe","breed","feed","fit","fix","food-for-thought","grow","israelmore-ayivor","position","position-yourself","positions","the-right-place","the-right-time"],"id":109732,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Ballot papers don’t determine who leads; they determine who takes which position. As to whether that person occupying the position will lead or will manipulate, character must come to prove it.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["attitude","ballot","ballot-paper","ballot-papers","character","characters","clinton","election","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","le-pain","leader","leaders","leadership","lifestyle","macron","manipulate","manipulation","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","obama","paper","position","positions","president","trump","vote","vote-for-me","voting"],"id":126255,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Desires may dry off, bodies may decay, friendship may vanish and positions may be dissolved. One thing will remain; the word of God! In the word is life!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["almighty","bible","christ","companions","companionship","death","decay","desire","desires","destiny","dissolution","dissolve","dry-off","food-for-thought","friends","friendship","god","in-him-is-life","israelmore-ayivor","jesus","jesus-christ","life","positions","remain","success","the-word-of-god","vanish","word","word-of-god"],"id":134894,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["create","creator","glad","god","happiness","i-am-happy","israelmore-ayivor","joy","joyous","maker","posess","position","positions","possesion","possessions","post","promote","promotion","realization","rejoice","rejoicing","self","state"],"id":150559,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Every day in life we’re told who this is and who that is. But when we sit we’re all the same when we remove our hat.","author":"Stanley Victor Paskavich","tags":["leaders","positions","power"],"id":161590,"author_id":"Stanley+Victor+Paskavich"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}