Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
BARACK OBAMAFind somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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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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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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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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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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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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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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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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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.
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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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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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