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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

Barack Obama

One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
BARACK OBAMA

Disrespect Insult Law One Liner
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
Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
BARACK OBAMA

Love Offense Respect
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 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
Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Character Empathy One Liner Quality World
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
BARACK OBAMA

Heritage Inspirational Strength Success Weakness
No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
BARACK OBAMA

Belief Birth Freedom Religious Right Women
History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
BARACK OBAMA

History Inspirational Life Past Patience
Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
BARACK OBAMA

Destination Share Story Success Victory
A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
BARACK OBAMA

Born Children Determination Dreamss Ethics Life
The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
BARACK OBAMA

Education Future Imagination People Success Young
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
BARACK OBAMA

Act Interest Responsiblity Stake Value
Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
BARACK OBAMA

Believe Confidence Dedication Determination Inspirational

Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

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