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Barack Obama Quotes about Inspiring

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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Inspirational, Inspiring, Hope

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

"Barack Obama's farewell speech: this is how a leader signs off" by Ruchira Karnik, www.hindustantimes.com. January 15, 2017.

We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from.

Inspiring, Dream, Country

Second Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 25 January 2011, Washington, D.C.

And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.

Inspiring, Jobs, Challenges

A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

Inspiring, Days Like This, Citizens

President Barack Obama's Remarks on the Boston Marathon explosions at the White House, Washington, D.C., insider.foxnews.com. April 15, 2013.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

Inspiring, Country, Mistake

Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another

Inspiring, Wall, Danger

Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future.

Inspiring, Believe, School

Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.

Inspiring, Advice, Going Away

His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon.

Inspiring, Powerful, Moral Leadership

Statement on the death of Vaclav Havel, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 18, 2011.

We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore - every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future.

Inspiring, Children, Believe

Remarks to the Joint Session of the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, India, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 08, 2010.

If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.

Inspiring, Teacher, Children

Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

Inspiring, Country, America

A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

Inspiring, Country, Believe

A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.

Inspiring, Children, School

[...] we must start by inspiring our children with a sense of purpose...by nurturing their imagination so that they may dream big and then work hard to reach those dreams. Too often, our children spend hours playing Playstation without ever finding out how to build Playstation. They watch television but never wonder how it's put together. They surf web page after web page on the Internet, but are never taught how to design one.

Inspiring, Dream, Children

But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.

Inspiring, Communication, Technology

We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire economy of high-tech, high-wage jobs that can be located anywhere there's an internet connection. And today, a child in Chicago is not only competing for jobs with one in Boston, but thousands more in Bangalore and Beijing who are being educated longer and better than ever before.

Inspiring, Jobs, Children

Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos; and Asians and Native Americans; and gay Americans and Americans with a disability. They swung open for you, and they swung open for me. And that's why I'm standing here today-because of those efforts, because of that legacy.

Inspiring, Native American, Gay

And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and keep the next wave of American jobs and American innovations, who's figuring out how to out-compete the Idea Generations of Indias and Chinas of the world.

Inspiring, Jobs, Cutting

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before.

Inspiring, Christian, Country

Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality.

Inspiring, Mistake, Believe

A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

Inspiring, Running, Country

Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.237, Canongate Books

As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

Inspiring, Graduation, Passion

Remarks by the President at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

I hoped for something else. It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.

Inspiring, Dream, Hard Work

Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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

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