Barack Obama
14 quotes.
Quotes by Barack Obama
- Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.
- Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
- Faith is not just something you have, it's something you do.
- Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.
- If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
- Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
- Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- We can't expect to solve problems if all we do is tear each other down. You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it.
- When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.
- Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.
- You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.