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 OBAMAIf you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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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 must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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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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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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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.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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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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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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