If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
BARACK OBAMAEmpathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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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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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.
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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.
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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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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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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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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’m a warrior for the middle class.
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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.
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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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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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