Barack Obama Famous Quotes

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.

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.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

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.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

The only way to ensure a strong democracy is to build a strong, educated, and engaged citizenry.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

We prove ourselves worthy by trying to keep it upright amid great challenge and change.

The biggest threat to our democracy is indifference.

No one is born hating another person because of their color or background or religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

Barack Obama Famous Quotes part 2

The audacity of hope, that’s what grips me.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

When ordinary people come together to demonstrate that change is possible, they can ignite the fire of progress.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Courage means you don’t let fear stop you.

The future rewards those who work while others sleep.

Don’t let anybody tell you that your voice doesn’t matter. Your voice can change the world.

Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depend on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity, it is a prerequisite.

The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift—the glorious burden of American citizenship.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Progress doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn’t happen without dedicated work.

The world as it is just won’t do. We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

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.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.

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, collectively, we can make a difference.

There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you.

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

The future is what we make of it. Let’s make it a better place.

We owe it to ourselves and future generations to leave behind a planet that is not polluted or damaged.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it’s whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

Our individual power may be limited, but together, our power is infinite.

We must resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

We rise or fall as one nation, as one people.

Don’t let fear dictate your actions. Dare to dream big, and chase those dreams relentlessly.

Success is not about the position you hold; it’s about the positive impact you make on others.

The greatest leaders are those who empower others to become leaders themselves.

My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it, so long as we seize it together.