We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
BARACK OBAMAI 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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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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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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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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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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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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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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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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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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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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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