{"quotes":[{"text":"Just because there is change around us does not mean there has to be change within us.","author":"Toni Sorenson","tags":["change","integrity","life","politics","stamina"],"id":11061,"author_id":"Toni+Sorenson"},{"text":"Remember, without a goal, your stamina is useless no matter how you get trained. You may defend your integrity and attack your obstacles, but when you have no target in focus, you will score many zero number of goals...","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["0","attack","defend","focus","food-for-thought","food-for-thought-people","get-trained","goal","integrity","israelmore-ayivor","matter","no-matter-how","obstacle","obstacles","remember","score","stamina","target","train","training","use","useless","winning-goal","zero"],"id":13309,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There is no harm in trying... Trying improves your skills, enhances your stamina and encourages you to excel. Give it a try... Even in trying moments, keep trying. You will never regret it!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["dont-give-up","excel","food-for-thought","give-it-a-try","harm","harmful","improve","israelmore-ayivor","keep-trying","regret","skills","stamina","there-is-no-harm-in-trying","try","try-again","trying"],"id":14537,"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":"I have a choice. That’s why I’m still here.","author":"Amy Neftzger","tags":["choice","commitment","stamina","staying-power","victory","volition"],"id":84941,"author_id":"Amy+Neftzger"},{"text":"Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","belief","beliefs","deep","dictum","dictums","endurance","endure","epigram","epigrams","gnome","gnomes","greed","greedy","humor","humour","ignorance","ignorant","insightful","knowledge","knowledgeable","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","misbelief","misbeliefs","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","preservation","preserve","problem","problems","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","retire","retired","retirement","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","social","social-ill","social-ills","societal","society","stamina","stupid","stupidity","thought-provoking","thoughtful","wisdom","wise","young"],"id":100171,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Bringing a novel to light - revealing the form and cadence, shadows and demeanor of a protagonist constructed from thin air - linking scenes and synchronicity across translucent time - holding up a glass brimming with chilled, never-tasted liquid, then sipping from it with intoxicated focus - allowing lovers to make a perilous mess of things, fall apart and nakedly come back together again - looking through conjured windows deep into someone else’s snow-bound solitude, feeling utterly alone yet being all-connected: this is not writing. It’s world-creating.It’s raw, exposed dreaming. It’s humbling. At first too personal and intimate to share, it evolves like a child into a life of its own until I have no say in what comes next. It’s what I wake at 4am to say Yes to, the spinning possibility of a new story relentlessly commanding me to write it down so it can whirl in your experience.","author":"Laurie Perez","tags":["art-making","creative-process","creatives","creativity","discovery","dreaming","fearless","imagination","intimacy","novel","novelist","stamina","thin-air","vision","visionary","writing"],"id":133655,"author_id":"Laurie+Perez"},{"text":"It’s is good you are about something. But wait and ask, “why and how?”. Without “whys and hows”, not every energetic movement can be called progress.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["actions","big-dreams","change","change-makers","charisma","dream-big","dreams","energetic","energy","food-for-thought","good","how","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","make-a-change","move","movement","personal-development","progress","purpose","purposeful","purposeful-living","stamina","success","successful","successful-people","take-action","take-actions","vision","visionary","wait","why"],"id":140191,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Your mind is the most incredible gift! A powerful mind is the reserve for all that is physical in stamina.","author":"James C. Emlund","tags":["fortitude","inspirational","intelligence","knowledge","mind","personal-courage","stamina","wisdom"],"id":195783,"author_id":"James+C.+Emlund"},{"text":"Your intelligence enhances your ability to think and recollect, dream and set realistic goals. Your stamina is built on your passion for progress and willingness to excel... When you have a great stamina, you can make great impact even with a low intelligent quotient!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["ability","able","big-dreams","bright","brilliant","clever","dream","dream-big","enhance","excel","excellence","food-for-thought","goal","goals","great","great-impact","impact","intelligence","intelligence-and-stamina","intelligent","intelligent-quotient","iq","israelmore-ayivor","low","low-intelligent-quotient","memorize","passion","passionate","progress","progressive","real","realistic","recollect","stamina","think","willing","willingness","you-can"],"id":230880,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}