Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
BARACK OBAMATogether we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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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.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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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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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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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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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.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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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.
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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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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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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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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.
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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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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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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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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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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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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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