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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.

Barack Obama

History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
BARACK OBAMA

History Inspirational Life Past Patience
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Belief Difficulty Faith God Hope Uncertain
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
BARACK OBAMA

Democracy Entity Foreign Government Ignorance Speak
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 OBAMA

Compromise Defend Fight Honor Ideal Ourselves
Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
BARACK OBAMA

Build Family Live Present Remember Rock
I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
BARACK OBAMA

Dedication Education Goodness Hard Work Struggle Sweat
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Believe Confidence Difference Effort Inspirational Voice
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
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Claim Eyes Lock Responsiblity Shape World
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
BARACK OBAMA

Heritage Inspirational Strength Success Weakness
Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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Change Climate Constitution One Liner Security Serious
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.
BARACK OBAMA

God Justice Liberty Patriotism Power Wealth
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
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Determination Goodness Hope Hopeless Wait Yourself
I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
BARACK OBAMA

Ambition Birthday Dreamss Old Strange
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
BARACK OBAMA

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