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 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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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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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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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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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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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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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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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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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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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