Best Barack Obama Quotes
1- “We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.” ~ Barack Obama
2- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
3- “Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential – that every life matters.” ~ Barack Obama
4- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
5- “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.” ~ Barack Obama
6- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
7- “When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.” ~ Barack Obama
8- “When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.” ~ Barack Obama
9- “Change is never easy, but always possible.” ~ Barack Obama
10- “Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and to learn something new.” ~ Barack Obama
11- “If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.” ~ Barack Obama
12- “Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.” ~ Barack Obama
13- “Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can’t accomplish alone.” ~ Barack Obama
14- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
15- “Hope is not blind optimism. It’s not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It’s not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.” ~ Barack Obama
16- “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.” ~ Barack Obama
17- “Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.” ~ Barack Obama
18- “We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.” ~ Barack Obama
19- “All of us – we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children’s expectations.” ~ Barack Obama
20- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
21- “We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.” ~ Barack Obama
22- “Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.” ~ Barack Obama
23- “Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.” ~ Barack Obama
24- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
25- “The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women” ~ Barack Obama
26- “Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.” ~ Barack Obama
27- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
28- “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.” ~ Barack Obama
29- “The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .” ~ Barack Obama
30- “No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.” ~ Barack Obama
31- “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.” ~ Barack Obama
32- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
33- “If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void” ~ Barack Obama
34- “We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.” ~ Barack Obama
35- “All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort — a sustained effort — to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.” ~ Barack Obama
36- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
37- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
38- “When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.” ~ Barack Obama
39- “We as a country have to do some soul-searching.” ~ Barack Obama
40- “It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.” ~ Barack Obama
41- “Don’t just buy a new video game, make one.
Don’t just download the latest app, help design it.
Don’t just play on your phone, program it.” ~ Barack Obama
42- “Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.” ~ Barack Obama
43- “Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.” ~ Barack Obama
44- “It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy” ~ Barack Obama
45- “Love and hope can conquer hate.” ~ Barack Obama
46- “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.” ~ Barack Obama
47- “Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.” ~ Barack Obama
48- “Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.” ~ Barack Obama
49- “In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.” ~ Barack Obama
50- “Your voice can change the world.” ~ Barack Obama
