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.
BARACK OBAMAWhere you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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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.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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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.
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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