Making your mark on the world is hard.

If it were easy, everybody would do it.

But it's not. It takes patience, it

takes commitment, and it comes with

plenty of failure’s along the way.

The real test is not whether you avoid

this failure, because you won't.

it's whether you let it harden or shame

you into

inaction or whether you learn from it;

whether you choose to persevere

President Barack Obama