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Barack Obama

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
BARACK OBAMA

Hustle Motivational Philosophy Work Hard World
Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
BARACK OBAMA

Believe Confidence Dedication Determination Inspirational
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
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
BARACK OBAMA

Failure Healing Inspirational Motivational Teaching
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.
BARACK OBAMA, SR.

Benefit Government Income Long Nothing People Stop
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
A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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Control Energy Future Inspirational Nation
Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Character Empathy One Liner Quality World
It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
BARACK OBAMA

Each Other Friendship Love Talk Wound
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Commitment Extraordinary Ordinary People
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
BARACK OBAMA

Election Law Politics President Rule
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
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.
BARACK OBAMA

Economy Education Knowledge Opportunity Path Value
History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
BARACK OBAMA

History Inspirational Life Past Patience
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
We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
BARACK OBAMA

Ability Believe Change Confidence Trust Yourself
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
BARACK OBAMA

Character Country Development Judgement Treat Women
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
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

Compromise Defend Fight Honor Ideal Ourselves
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Belief Birth Freedom Religious Right Women
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
BARACK OBAMA

Expectation Father Humour Live Man Mistake Try
Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
BARACK OBAMA

Love Offense Respect
We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
BARACK OBAMA

Action Business Hustle Imperfection Success
The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
BARACK OBAMA

Business One Liner Opportunity Success
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Belief Difficulty Faith God Hope Uncertain
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
BARACK OBAMA

Difference Give Up Ideas Success Voice Void
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

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