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 OBAMAI think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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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.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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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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