You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
BARACK OBAMAI think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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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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