Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
BARACK OBAMAA lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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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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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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