There is no excuse for not trying.
BARACK OBAMAWe don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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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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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.
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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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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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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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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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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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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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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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