President Obama speech to students

Here are some other good quotes I came across while working on a Bob Miller story. I guess I must be feeling like a failure lately because these quotes make me feel better:

"I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed," the president said, quoting Michael Jordan.
The president also told the students about J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, and how 12 publishers in a row rejected her first book before she got lucky with the 13th.
"She had a child and no job,’’ Carla Tischio, who team-teaches the class with Bernson, said after Obama’s talk. "She’d go to a coffeehouse, order one cup of coffee, sit there and write and write. What if she had given up after her first rejection?’’