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.
BARACK OBAMALove and hope can conquer hate.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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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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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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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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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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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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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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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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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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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 one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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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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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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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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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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Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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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 are the change we have been waiting for.
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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
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