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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.

Barack Obama

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Dreamss Freedom Girl Imagination World
A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
BARACK OBAMA

Dog One Liner Race Shelter
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
BARACK OBAMA

Failure Healing Inspirational Motivational Teaching
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
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
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Black Black Lives Matter Burden Destiny Greatness Strong
Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Inspirational Power Stand Voice
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.
BARACK OBAMA

God Justice Liberty Patriotism Power Wealth
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Determination Goodness Hope Hopeless Wait Yourself
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
BARACK OBAMA

Book Inspirational Open Reading Success World
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
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Belief Difficulty Faith God Hope Uncertain
Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
BARACK OBAMA

Fight Gratitude Involvement Mind Motivational Table
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
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
BARACK OBAMA

Book Children Hands Learning Possible Reading

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