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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

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
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
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
BARACK OBAMA

Book Children Hands Learning Possible Reading
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
BARACK OBAMA

Account Bank Democracy Money Power Vote
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
BARACK OBAMA

Hustle Motivational Philosophy Work Hard World
The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
BARACK OBAMA

Bullying Future Girl School Women World
Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
BARACK OBAMA

Fight Gratitude Involvement Mind Motivational Table
Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
BARACK OBAMA

Believe Confidence Difference Effort Inspirational Voice
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
If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
BARACK OBAMA

Build Business Election Inspirational One Liner President
If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
BARACK OBAMA

Bullying Man Respect Strong Women
If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
BARACK OBAMA

Appreciate Criticize Different Praise
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
BARACK OBAMA

Act Interest Responsiblity Stake Value
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
BARACK OBAMA

Heritage Inspirational Strength Success Weakness
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Claim Eyes Lock Responsiblity Shape World
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
BARACK OBAMA

Change Commitment Extraordinary Ordinary People

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.

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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.

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