“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?”
Motivated feeling
Motivated Quotes — page 208 of 381
“Create accomplishment from disappointments. Demoralization and disappointment are two of the surest going stones to achievement.”
“Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.”
“I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.”
“My Maman told me that only the crazy ones and the passionate ones accomplish anything in life.”
“Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.”
“Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.”
“Work is the price which is paid for reputation.”
“Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.”
“The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong.”
“Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.”
“My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol — to do what I believe is best for America.”
“I always tell my staff, "Better is good." I'll take better every time, because better is hard.”
“I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now.”
“John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it.”
“One of the things I think we have to do is make sure that college is affordable for every young person in America. And I also think that we're going to have to rebuild our infrastructure, which is falling behind, our roads, our bridges, but also broadband lines that reach into rural communities. So there are some things that we've got to do structurally to make sure that we can compete in this global economy. We can't shortchange those things. We've got to eliminate programs that don't work, and we've got to make sure that the programs that we do have are more efficient and cost less.”
“You have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting.”
“We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment.”
“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.”
“Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.”