What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
BARACK OBAMAIf you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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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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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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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 don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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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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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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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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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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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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