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.
BARACK OBAMAYou can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
More Barack Obama Quotes
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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Yes We Can!
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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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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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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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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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.
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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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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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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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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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