If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
BARACK OBAMAMaking your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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.
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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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When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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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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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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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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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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