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Barack Obama Quotes - Page 5

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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.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

Believe, Ability, Asks

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.

Faith, Audacity, Faces

2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.

Peaceful, Democracy, Transition

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

Long, Favors, Wealth

First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness

Bridges, Tools, Excuse

"Obama to new grads: 'No time for excuses'" by Mark Morgenstein, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2013.

I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom.

Thinking, Ideas, Safety

Source: www.nbcnews.com

As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.

Thinking, People, Mind

Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?

Nice, Thinking, Fancy Cars

"Obama to Europe: No More Excuses" by Dan Froomkin, voices.washingtonpost.com. April 3, 2009.

Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.

Mother, Gratitude, Hard Work

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

Warrior, Class, Middle

Remarks on the American Jobs Act in Cincinnati, OH, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 22, 2011.

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.

Inspirational, Dream, Sorry

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

Evil, World, May

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Friends, Leather Jackets, Rocks

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.100, Canongate Books

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

Hope, Powerful, Absence

"War sometimes justified, Obama says in Nobel Peace Prize speech". www.cnn.com. December 10, 2009.

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.

Inspirational, Gratitude, Cheer

Barack Obama's Remarks at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2011.

For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change.

Children, Climate, Sake

Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Character, Eye, Shoes

Obama Holds a Town Hall in Istanbul, www.washingtonpost.com. April 7, 2009.

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.

Girl, Daughter, Dream

Obama’s Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2012.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

Memorial Day, Hero, Sacrifice

Remarks by the President at a Memorial Day Service, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 30, 2011.

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

Giving Up, Ideas, Voice

Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

There’s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have -- for our children, for our families, for each other. The warmth of a small child’s embrace -- that is true. The memories we have of them, the joy that they bring, the wonder we see through their eyes, that fierce and boundless love we feel for them, a love that takes us out of ourselves, and binds us to something larger -- we know that’s what matters. We know we’re always doing right when we’re taking care of them, when we’re teaching them well, when we’re showing acts of kindness. We don’t go wrong when we do that.

Children, Memories, Kindness

Remarks by the President at Sandy Hook Interfaith Prayer Vigil, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 16, 2012.

The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.

Past, Clouds, Views

Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.434, Broadway Books

What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world.

Kindness, Mistake, Joy

Eulogy for Ted Kennedy, delivered 29 August 2009

If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.

Hard Work, Responsible, Should

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.

Dream, Children, Work Ethic

"U.S. Agriculture Secretary 'Convinced' Rural Revitalization Plan Will Work". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 15, 2014.

Born: b. August 4, 1961
Occupation: 44th U.S. President

Quotes: 3124

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