{"quotes":[{"text":"Great men have great discipline.","author":"Habeeb Akande","tags":["discipline","great","greatness","hero","leaders","leadership","mabhood","masculinity","men","restraint","role-model","self-control","strength"],"id":3957,"author_id":"Habeeb+Akande"},{"text":"A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["chase","clarity","concentration","focus","follow","follow-people","followers","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","knowledge","lead-yourself","leader","leaders","leadership","leanr","learners","learning","mentor","mentors","model","personal-development","principles","role-model","self-leaders","self-leadership","teach","teachers","teaching"],"id":4005,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"My role as a role model is to teach my generation how to excel in the role of distinction.","author":"Onyi Anyado","tags":["distinction","inspirational","inspire","leadership","leadership-development","leadership","of-the-day","to-live-by","role-model","role-model-for-kids","role-model-for-teenagers","role-models"],"id":10103,"author_id":"Onyi+Anyado"},{"text":"Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","confuse","confusion","enemies","enemy","funny","hate","hatred","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","qualities","quality","role-model","role-models","satire"],"id":22656,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past.","author":"Gordon Savage","tags":["cancer","inspirational","life","role-model"],"id":24886,"author_id":"Gordon+Savage"},{"text":"When a boy feels as if no one cares about him, or as if he will never amount to anything, he truly believes it doesn’t matter what he does.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":37113,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"It’s time to stop dreaming about who you want your son to be and help him become the healthy, happy, and successful man he’s supposed to be.","author":"Clayton Lessor MA","tags":["boy","childhood","discipline","family","father","fatherhood","growing-up","mentor","mother","motherhood","parent","parenthood","parenting","personal-responsibility","rite-of-passage","role-model","sense-of-belonging","son","teenager"],"id":41429,"author_id":"Clayton+Lessor+MA"},{"text":"Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","aspiration","aspire","axiom","axioms","boy","boys","capitalism","capitalistic","carbon-emissions","carbon-footprint","civilization","countries","country","deep","develop","developed","developed-countries","developed-country","dictum","dictums","economic-growth","economics","economies","economy","emission","environment","epigram","epigrams","first-world","funny","gdp","global-warming","gnome","gnomes","gnp","gross-domestic-product","gross-national-product","growth","humor","humorous","humour","industrialization","industrialized","industry","insightful","look-up-to","made-me-think","make-you-think","man","maxim","maxims","men","ozone-layer","philosopher","pollution","poor","poverty","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rich","riches","role-model","role-models","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","second-world","south-africa","south-african","third-world","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underdeveloped","underdeveloped-countries","underdeveloped-country","wealth","wealthy"],"id":45750,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"But if a role model in her seventies isn't layered with contradictions - as we all come to be - then what good is she? Why bother to cut the silhouette of another's existence and place it against our own if it isn't as incongruous, ambiguous, inconsistent, and paradoxical as our own lives are?","author":"Molly Peacock","tags":["aging","artist","paradoxes","role-model","women"],"id":49772,"author_id":"Molly+Peacock"},{"text":"One of a mother’s greatest gifts is to teach her child that to grow is not to timidly sit on some safe shore at water’s edge and clumsily grab whatever happens to float by. Rather, it is to deliberately step into waters both calm and turbulent in order to wrestle great things to shore. And that lesson can be best taught by a mother who stands before her child dripping wet.","author":"Craig D. 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