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.
BARACK OBAMAThe 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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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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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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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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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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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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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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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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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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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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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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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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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