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Barack Obama - From the Ambition category:
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Authority category:
The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Belief category:
If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
We have a stake in one another... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and... if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done for the people with whom we share this Earth. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Challenge category:
Yes we can! (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Change category:
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)
Barack Obama - From the Children category:
We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness.' In other words, are we useful, are we making other people's lives a little bit better? (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Complaining category:
I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Destiny category:
Our stories are singular but our destiny is shared. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Earth category:
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Education category:
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)
Barack Obama - From the Environment category:
The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Excellence category:
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Failure category:
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)
Barack Obama - From the Faith category:
Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Fame category:
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Freedom category:
That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door... (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Future category:
The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Goodness category:
A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.' (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Greatness category:
Greatness is never free; it must be earned. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Hope category:
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)
Barack Obama - From the Hope category:
That is why we fight - in hopes of a day when we no longer need to. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Innovation category:
Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Money category:
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)
Barack Obama - From the Opportunity category:
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a pre-requisite. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Patriotism category:
Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Patriotism category:
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the
United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America
and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Perseverance category:
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Politics category:
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Possibilities category:
All things are possible. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Potential category:
It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Problems category:
You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Progress category:
If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Prosperity category:
Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Recognition category:
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Success category:
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Timeliness category:
I am running in this race because of what Dr. King called 'the fierce urgency of now.' Because I believe that there's such a thing as being too late. And that hour is almost upon us. (Barack Obama)
Barack Obama - From the Tyranny category:
Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction. (Barack Obama)
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