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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.

Barack Obama

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 OBAMA

Bedroom Crying Gratitude Hustle Motivational Shoes
I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
BARACK OBAMA

Dedication Education Goodness Hard Work Struggle Sweat
Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
BARACK OBAMA

One Liner Perseverance Struggle Worth
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
BARACK OBAMA, SR.

Benefit Government Income Long Nothing People Stop
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
BARACK OBAMA

Path Progress Right Success Victory Walk
As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
BARACK OBAMA

Beginning Commitment New Year Ourselves Resolution Value
It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
BARACK OBAMA

Discover Force Greatness Lying Moments Try
It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
BARACK OBAMA

Each Other Friendship Love Talk Wound
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Compromise Defend Fight Honor Ideal Ourselves
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
BARACK OBAMA

History Past View Worst
I’m a warrior for the middle class.
BARACK OBAMA

Help Leadership One Liner President Warrior
Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
BARACK OBAMA

Believe Confidence Difference Effort Inspirational Voice
We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
BARACK OBAMA

Ability Believe Change Confidence Trust Yourself
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
BARACK OBAMA

Election Law Politics President Rule
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
BARACK OBAMA

Heritage Inspirational Strength Success Weakness
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
BARACK OBAMA

Avoid Failure Inspirational Learning Patience Shame

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