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 OBAMAYou can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
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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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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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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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.
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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.
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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
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