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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.

Barack Obama

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 OBAMA

Born Different Man Mistake Wealth Young
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Commitment Extraordinary Ordinary People
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
BARACK OBAMA

Account Bank Democracy Money Power Vote
A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
BARACK OBAMA

Dog One Liner Race Shelter
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Economy Education Knowledge Opportunity Path Value
Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
BARACK OBAMA

Deep Hammer Healing Inspirational Nails Problem
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
BARACK OBAMA

Difference Give Up Ideas Success Voice Void
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Ambition Focus Fulfilment Life Show Yourself
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
BARACK OBAMA

Advertise Folk Ignorance Ignorant Talk Want
Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
BARACK OBAMA

Misfortune Nation People Team Work Togetherness
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Discover Force Greatness Lying Moments Try
One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
BARACK OBAMA

Disrespect Insult Law One Liner
Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
BARACK OBAMA

Future Hustle Inspirational One Liner Writing
To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
BARACK OBAMA

Black Black Lives Matter Burden Destiny Greatness Strong
Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
BARACK OBAMA

Equality Gay Journey Justice Law Treat
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Avoid Failure Inspirational Learning Patience Shame

As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.

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