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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

Barack Obama

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
One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Inspirational Nation Room World
One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
BARACK OBAMA

Disrespect Insult Law One Liner
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Economy Education Knowledge Opportunity Path Value
Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
BARACK OBAMA

One Liner Perseverance Struggle Worth
Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
BARACK OBAMA

Deep Eat Insult Interfere One Linner
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
We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
BARACK OBAMA

Courtesy Each Other Evil Respect Stop Treat World
Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
BARACK OBAMA

Book Inspirational Open Reading Success World
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Avoid Failure Inspirational Learning Patience Shame
I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
BARACK OBAMA

Agree Appreciate Man Marriage Past Woman
If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
BARACK OBAMA

Appreciate Criticize Different Praise
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Inspirational Person Seek Time Wait
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Blame Flobe Judgement Leadership People Society
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
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
BARACK OBAMA

Fear Future Inspirational Motivational Shape Success

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