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 OBAMAWe don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
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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’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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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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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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A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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