The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
BARACK OBAMAWhen our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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