Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
BARACK OBAMATake 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.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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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.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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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.
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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’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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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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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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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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