Barack Obama Quotes
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 predict the future is to create it.
We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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 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.
There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.
Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We became the most prosperous country by rewarding hard work and responsibility.
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 not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
The best education in the world is one that prepares you for your own unique path, not one that prepares you to follow someone else’s.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you’re willing to work hard, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight. You can make it here in America if you’re willing to try.
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression, it is more speech.
Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
The future rewards those who press on.
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.
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.
Change is never easy, but always possible.
If you’re looking for the safe choice, you shouldn’t be supporting me.
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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.
We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Dont let anyone tell you that change is not possible. You have the power to make it happen.
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.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
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 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.
We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Dont let anyone tell you that change is not possible. You have the power to make it happen.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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 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.
There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.
Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We became the most prosperous country by rewarding hard work and responsibility.
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 not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
The best education in the world is one that prepares you for your own unique path, not one that prepares you to follow someone else’s.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you’re willing to work hard, it doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn’t matter whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight. You can make it here in America if you’re willing to try.