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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

Barack Obama

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

Business Path Progress Right Success Walk
The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
BARACK OBAMA

Education Future Imagination People Success Young
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
BARACK OBAMA

Blame Flobe Judgement Leadership People Society
If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
BARACK OBAMA

Appreciate Criticize Different Praise
One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Inspirational Nation Room World
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
A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
BARACK OBAMA

Born Children Determination Dreamss Ethics Life
We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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Action Business Hustle Imperfection Success
Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
BARACK OBAMA

Bullying Deserve Freedom Happiness Insult Pursue
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Proud Religion Tolerance Tradition
I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
BARACK OBAMA

Agree Appreciate Man Marriage Past Woman
The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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History Past View Worst
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Heritage Inspirational Strength Success Weakness
A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
BARACK OBAMA

Control Energy Future Inspirational Nation
There is no excuse for not trying.
BARACK OBAMA

Failure Motivational One Liner Success
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Born Different Man Mistake Wealth Young

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