I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
BARACK OBAMAHope – 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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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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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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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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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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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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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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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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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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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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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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 religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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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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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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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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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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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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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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