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 OBAMADon’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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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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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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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.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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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’m a warrior for the middle class.
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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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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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