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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.”
― 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
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
tags: affluence, affluent, africa, african-leaders, change, change-makers, change-the-world, corrupt, corrupt-leaders, corruption, food-for-thought, govern, governance, government, greed, greediness, greedy, greedy-leaders, hungry, i-am-rich, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, mission, money, penury, personal-development, political, political-leaders, politics, poor, poor-people, poverty, rich, rich-man, riches, self-improvement, thief, thieves, wealth, wealthy
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Israelmore Ayivor
“Your true love for God is demonstrated through your ability to hold onto your faithfulness in the midst of Prosperity and Poverty, Happiness and Hardships, Sickness and Success; in whatever is Appealing or Appalling!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
tags: ability, achieve, appall, appalling, appeal, appealing, challenges, demonstrate, difficulties, diseases, faithfulness, food-for-thought, glad, god, good-and-bad, good-and-evil, happiness, happy, hard-times, hardship, hardships, hold-on, ill, illness, israelmore-ayivor, joy, joyful, love, love-god, penury, poverty, predicaments, prosper, prosperity, sick, sickness, sickness-and-diseases, succeed, success, successful, true, true-love
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: affirmative-action, affluence, affluent, bed, bedroom, beggary, broke, capital, cash, cleaned-out, destitute, destitution, dough, equality, filthy-rich, finance-assets, flat-broke, flush, fortune-money, funds, hard-up, hardship, holdings, house, impecunious, impecuniousness, impoverished, impoverishment, in-debt, in-the-money, indigence, indigent, inequality, insolvent, kitchen, loaded, low-income, lucre, made-of-money, means, moneyed, moneyless, moola, moolah, necessitous, need, neediness, needy, opulent, pauperdom, pauperism, pauperized, penniless, pennilessness, penury, poor, possessions, poverty, poverty-stricken, property, prosperity, prosperous, reserves, resources, riches, rolling-in-it, rolling-in-money, rolling-in-the-dough, securities, silk-stocking, size-counts, size-does-not-count, size-doesn-t-count, stinking-rich, stock, strapped-formal-penurious, substance, treasure, unable-to-make-ends-meet, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well-to-do, wherewithal, without-a-cent-to-one-s-name, without-a-sou
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George R.R. Martin
“Penny touched the cheek he’d slapped. “We should never have run. We’re not sellswords. We’re not any kind of swords. It wasn’t so bad with Yezzan. It wasn’t. Nurse was cruel sometimes but Yezzan never was. We were his favorites, his … his …” “Slaves. The word you want is slaves.” “Slaves,” she said, flushing. “We were his special slaves, though. Just like Sweets. His treasures.” His pets, thought Tyrion. And he loved us so much that he sent us to the pit, to be devoured by lions. She was not all wrong. Yezzan’s slaves ate better than many peasants back in the Seven Kingdoms and were less like to starve to death come winter. Slaves were chattels, aye. They could be bought and sold, whipped and branded, used for the carnal pleasure of their owners, bred to make more slaves. In that sense they were no more than dogs or horses. But most lords treated their dogs and horses well enough. Proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap. When the steel struck the flint, such men were rare as dragon’s teeth; elsewise the world would not have been so full of slaves. There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave, the dwarf reflected. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
tags: choice, freedom, penury, slavery, work
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