When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
BARACK OBAMA
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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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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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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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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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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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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