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.
BARACK OBAMAFocusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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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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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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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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When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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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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