Barack Obama was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu,
Hawaii. He is an attorney and politician. He was served as the 44th
president of the United States from 2009 to 2017 and he was the first African
American to be elected to the presidency.
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| 36 Top Success Quotes by Barack Obama |
Here is the Top 36 Quotes by Barack Obama as below:
1. “Change will not come if we wait for some
other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
2. “If you’re walking down the right path and
you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
3. “We need to steer clear of this poverty of
ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live
in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things.
Everyone should try to realize their full potential.”
4. “The future rewards those who press on. I
don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain.
I’m going to press on.”
5. “It
was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted
today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance,
Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the
middle-class security all bear the union label.”
6. “If the people cannot trust their
government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote
their common welfare – all else is lost.”
7. “Today we are engaged in a deadly global
struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for
exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread
those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true
direction.”
8. “In a world of complex threats, our
security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong
and principled diplomacy.”
9. “The shift to a cleaner energy economy
won’t happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But
the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.”
10. “The thing about hip-hop today is it’s
smart, it’s insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a
very short space is remarkable.”
11. “Money is not the only answer, but it
makes a difference.”
12. “We have an obligation and a
responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make
sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the
money, can still get the best education possible.”
13. “My identity might begin with the fact of
my race, but it didn’t, couldn’t end there. At least that’s what I would choose
to believe.”
14. “When ignorant folks want to advertise
their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them
talk.”
15. “I’m the president of the United States.
I’m not the emperor of the United States.”
16. “Change is never easy, but always
possible.”
17. “The cynics may be the loudest voices –
but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.”
18. “You can’t let your failures define you.
You have to let your failures teach you.”
19. “Nothing in life that’s worth anything is
easy.”
20. “We did not come to fear the future. We
came here to shape it.”
21. “In the end, that’s what this election is
about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”
22. “If you run you stand a chance of losing,
but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.”
23. “The value of social movements and
activism is to get you at the table, get you in the room, and then to start
trying to figure out how is this problem going to be solved.”
24. “I think when you spread the wealth around
it’s good for everybody.”
25. “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.”
26. “Just because we have the best hammer does
not mean that every problem is a nail.”
27. “If you work hard and meet your
responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you
look like or who you love.”
28. “Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep
asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the
power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the
world.”
29. “We are the change we have been waiting
for.”
30. “We need to keep making our streets safer
and our criminal justice system fairer – our homeland more secure, our world
more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.”
31. “Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song.
‘Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.”
32. “We don’t turn back. We leave no one
behind. We pull each other up.”
33. “What Washington needs is adult
supervision.”
34. “Where we are met with cynicism and doubts
and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed
that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes We Can.”
35. “You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still
a pig.”
36. “We may not be able to stop evil in the
world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.”
Which quotes above do you like?
