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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

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
BARACK OBAMA

Believe Confidence Difference Effort Inspirational Voice
A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
BARACK OBAMA

Control Energy Future Inspirational Nation
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Inspirational Nation Room World
Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
BARACK OBAMA

Misfortune Nation People Team Work Togetherness
You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
BARACK OBAMA

Claim Eyes Lock Responsiblity Shape World
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Avoid Failure Inspirational Learning Patience Shame
A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
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Born Children Determination Dreamss Ethics Life
One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
BARACK OBAMA

Disrespect Insult Law One Liner
You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
BARACK OBAMA

Election Government Leadership Politics President Truth
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
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
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
BARACK OBAMA

Advertise Folk Ignorance Ignorant Talk Want
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Blame Flobe Judgement Leadership People Society
I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
BARACK OBAMA

Agree Appreciate Man Marriage Past Woman
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
BARACK OBAMA

Business Path Progress Right Success Walk
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
BARACK OBAMA

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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.

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