The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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 sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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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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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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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.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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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.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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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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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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Focusing 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.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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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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