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Barack Obama Quotes about Ambition

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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.

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.

Money, Ambition, Focus

Barack Obama's commencement speech at Northwestern University, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

Ambition, Thinking, Poverty

President Barack Obama's remarks at the commencement ceremony at Century Campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 19, 2013.

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

Ambition, Thinking, Peculiar

Source: www.vanityfair.com

While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

Children, Ambition, Knowing

Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

Country, Memories, Ambition

First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

I actually think, when you're young, ambitions are somewhat common - you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different life experiences. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the admiration of the demanding father. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the love of an absent father.

Father, Ambition, Thinking

Source: www.vanityfair.com

They assert that their program is purely peaceful. . . . We want them to demonstrate clearly in the actions they propose that they have truly abandoned any nuclear weapons ambition.

Ambition, Peaceful, Nuclear

As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds or faiths can recognize each other's humanity, or creating a world in which every kid, regardless of their background, can strive and achieve and fulfill their potential.

Ambition, Kids, Race

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. [...] We are and forever will be the United States of America. [...] We will continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth.

Believe, Ambition, America

Obama's victory speech, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. November 7th, 2012.

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

Ambition, Alaska, Individual

Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

Ambition, Character, Achievement

One of the things that we have to change in this country is the idea that people can't disagree without challenging each other's character and patriotism. I have never suggested that Sen. McCain picks his positions on national security based on politics or personal ambition. I have not suggested it because I believe that he genuinely wants to serve America's national interest. Now, it's time for him to acknowledge that I want to do the same. Let me be clear: I will let no one question my love of this country.

Country, Believe, Ambition

You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You may want to prove that you're worthy of high expectations. But I do think that there is a youthful ambition that very much has to do with making your mark in the world. And I think that cuts across the experiences of a lot of people who end up achieving something significant in their field.

Ambition, Kids, Cutting

Source: www.vanityfair.com

I think that at a certain stage those early ambitions burn away, partly because you achieve something, you get something done, you get some notoriety. And then the particularities of who you are and what your deepest commitments are begin expressing themselves. You're not just chasing the idea of "me" being important, but you, rather, are chasing a particular passion.

Passion, Ambition, Commitment

Source: www.vanityfair.com

You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important.

Father, Ambition, Kids

Source: www.vanityfair.com

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

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