64 result(s) for Barack Obama Quotes.
"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."
"Don’t let your failures define you. Let them teach you. Let them shape you into the person you are today so you can be the person you will be tomorrow."
"When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up."
"I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change, but in yours."
"Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's the belief that our circumstances will improve if we work and fight for it, and it's the expectation that our actions will make a difference."
"What the American people hope - what they deserve - is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences, to overcome the vitriol and the partisanship, to reach for a higher place."
"History has shown time and again that when a society benefits from the participation of all of its citizens, it leads to greater wealth, greater opportunity, and a better quality of life for all."
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"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the strength to do what is right in the face of it."
"In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"
"Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's the hope that if we work hard enough and believe in ourselves, then we can be the change we seek."
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the change that we seek."
"I stand here today grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents' dreams live on in my two daughters."
"We are the change that we seek."
"Washington isn't listening to you. They're listening to the powerful lobbyists. They're listening to the big money interests. They're listening to the folks who are writing the checks."
"I may not have been born in America, but I was made in America."
"Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change."
"Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do."
"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
"We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity."
"Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it."
"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 along the way."
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"One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it can change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world."
"Change is always tough, even if you're used to it."
"A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things."
"Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up."
"You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you."
"The future is what we make of it. And even when it seems like we don't have much control, we do have an enduring responsibility to do our part."
"Don't fear the future. Shape it."
"Each of us can make the world a better place. Every little bit counts."
"The world needs your creativity and your energy and your vision. You are the future."
"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have a lot of patience for anything that's not real."
"I found myself a greater commitment to working with those who may not always share my perspective."
"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."
"Each of us can make a difference, and all of us ought to try."
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"It's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds."
"If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or who you love."
"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition. This idea that a bigger paycheck or a promotion is the only way to reach that success. Because success is only real when you share it."
"Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny."
"There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America."
"In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
"Have the courage to change the things you can, the serenity to accept the things you cannot, and the wisdom to know the difference."
"Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom."
"Progress will come in fits and starts. It's not always a straight line. It's not always a smooth path."
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."
"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
"We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it."
"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"
"We are the change we seek."
"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."
"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."
"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
"Change is never easy, but always possible."
"While we breathe, we will hope."
"We should be remembered for what we did. You don't want to be remembered for what you didn't do."
"The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose."
"If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress."
"The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create."
"We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK."
"We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense."
"You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt."
"I'm asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about change, but in yours."
"The opportunity that made all this possible for me - a great education, a chance to go to college and law school, and most of all, the education of Michelle and me as parents - must be within the reach of every child in America."
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