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 OBAMADon’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
BARACK OBAMAThe future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
BARACK OBAMAIf you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
BARACK OBAMAFor we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
BARACK OBAMAYou can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
BARACK OBAMAWhen ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
BARACK OBAMAI 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 OBAMATo 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 OBAMAFocusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
BARACK OBAMASomeone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
BARACK OBAMAThe future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
BARACK OBAMAWhat makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
BARACK OBAMAThere is no excuse for not trying.
BARACK OBAMAIf you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
BARACK OBAMAHistory doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
BARACK OBAMAJust because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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