You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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"Invest in our teachers, and our children will succeed."

- Barack Obama

Empowerment

"We are the change that we seek."

- Barack Obama

Leadership

"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

- Barack Obama

Hope

"That’s the promise of tomorrow — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it."

- Barack Obama

Inspiration

"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer."

- Barack Obama

Inspiration

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"You learn more from failure than from success. Don’t let it stop you. Failure builds character."

Failure

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."

- Thomas Edison

Failure

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes – understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

Failure

"Trying is the first step toward failure."

- Homer Simpson

Failure

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

Failure