“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”

We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

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.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

Success comes from failure, not from memorizing the right answers.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

Don’t read success stories, you will only get a message. Read failure stories, you will get some ideas to get success.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

When one door is closed, don’t you know that many more are open.

It doesn’t matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don’t succeed, someone will succeed.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.