100+ Barack Obama Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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Ability Children Courage Man Raise
Love and hope can conquer hate.
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Conquer Expectation Hate Hope Love One Liner
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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Black Black Lives Matter Burden Destiny Greatness Strong
If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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Difference Give Up Ideas Success Voice Void
Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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Deep Hammer Healing Inspirational Nails Problem
Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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Misfortune Nation People Team Work Togetherness
There is no excuse for not trying.
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Failure Motivational One Liner Success
Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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Bullying Deserve Freedom Happiness Insult Pursue
The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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Business One Liner Opportunity Success
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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God Justice Liberty Patriotism Power Wealth
When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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Business Give Up Inspirational Success Time Tough
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.
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Bullying Future Girl School Women World
Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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Believe Confidence Dedication Determination Inspirational
Yes We Can!
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Confidence Dedication Hustle Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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Belief Difficulty Faith God Hope Uncertain
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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Ambition Focus Life Poverty Realize Yourself
It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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Discover Force Greatness Lying Moments Try
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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Economy Education Knowledge Opportunity Path Value
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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Failure Healing Inspirational Motivational Teaching
I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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Agree Appreciate Man Marriage Past Woman
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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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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Compromise Defend Fight Honor Ideal Ourselves
If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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Build Business Election Inspirational One Liner President
A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
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Born Children Determination Dreamss Ethics Life
The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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Call God Prayer Religion Sound Sweet
History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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History Inspirational Life Past Patience
A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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Control Energy Future Inspirational Nation

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