Obama is such a person who can make the impossible possible with his courage. Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States. And is the first African-American who has been elected to this position. Obama won the first election in 2008, and again in 2012 kept his place in the presidency. Barack Obama is seen as the most successful president. He is known as the most powerful person in the world. Barack Obama’s full name is Barack Hussein Obama, he was born on 4 August 1961 in Honolulu. His mother’s name was Ann Dunham, who was born at the Army Base during World War II. Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr., was born in Nyanza Province, Kenya. In the early days, father Barack Obama made a living by raising goats. He got a scholarship to study and he went to Hawaii to fulfill his dreams where he met Ann Dunham. They married on February 2, 1961, the same year the younger Barack Obama was born. Here are some powerful quotes by Barack Obama that inspire millions of people worldwide.
Barack Obama Quotes
- “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.”― Barack Obama
- “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
“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”― Barack Obama
- “We are the change we have been waiting for.”― Barack Obama
- “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”― Barack Obama
- “In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”― Barack Obama
- “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”― Barack Obama
- “There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.”― Barack Obama
- “We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”― Barack Obama
- “it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”― Barack Obama
- “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
“Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”― Barack Obama
- “The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”― Barack Obama
- “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”― Barack Obama
- “Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.”― Barack Obama
- “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”― Barack Obama
- “While we breathe, we will hope.”― Barack Obama
- “No one is pro-abortion. ”― Barack Obama
- “You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.”-Barack Obama
- “Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”― Barack Obama
- “My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn’t, couldn’t end there.
- At least that’s what I would choose to believe.”― Barack Obama
- “A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.”― Barack Obama
- “Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up”― Barack Obama
- “A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.”― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
- “Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes….”― Barack Obama
- “Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”― Barack Obama
- “You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.”― Barack Obama
- “All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we’ve done to make so many children’s hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass – what values we must live by.”― Barack Obama
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- “We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.”― Barack Obama
- “We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist. ”― Barack Obama
- “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
- “Change is never easy, but always possible.”― Barack Obama
- “I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.”― Barack Obama
- “But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.”― Barack Obama
- “Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.”― Barack Obama
- “It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”― Barack Obama
- “I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”― Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
- “To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.― Barack Obama
- “At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better”― Barack Obama
“There is no excuse for not trying.”― Barack Obama
- “Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.”― Barack Obama
- “You know, sometimes I’ll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there’s all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it’s just 8th grade … An 8th-grade education doesn’t cut it today. Let’s give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!”― Barack Obama
- “Let me tell your something. I’m from Chicago. I don’t break.”― Barack Obama
- “What Washington Needs is Adult Supervision.”― Barack Obama
- “I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.”― Barack Obama
- “My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.”― Barack Obama
- “To be known. To be heard. To have one’s unique identity recognized and seen as worthy. It was a universal human desire, I thought, as true for nations and peoples as it was for individuals.”― Barack Obama
- “The truth is, I’ve never been a big believer in destiny. I worry that it encourages resignation in the down-and-out and complacency among the powerful.”― Barack Obama
- “We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.”― President Barack H. Obama
- “For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.”― President Barack Obama
- “The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.”― Barack Obama
- “I’d met my share of highly credentialed, high-IQ morons”― Barack Obama
- “This shit would be really interesting if we weren’t in the middle of it.”― Barack Obama
- “make away out of no way”― Barack Obama
- “Either grab a drink and sit down with us or get the fuck out of here.”― Barack Obama
- “But you don’t choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you’re willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.”― Barack Obama
- “A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.”― Barack Obama
- “America is big enough to accommodate all their dreams.”― Barack Obama
- “There’s nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man… to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that’s a recipe for disaster.”― Barack Obama
- “Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.”― Barack Obama
- “It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”― Barack Obama
- “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
- It is that courage that Africa most desperately needs.”― Barack Obama
- “Words do inspire. ”― Barack Obama
- “Better to be strong,’ he [Lolo] said…’if you can’t be strong, be clever and make peace with someone who’s strong. But always better to be strong yourself.”― Barack Obama
- “It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.”― Barack Obama
- “And it’s safe to assume that those in power would think longer and harder about launching a war if they envisioned their own sons and daughters in harm’s way.”― Barack Obama
- “Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you”― Obama
- “To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.”― Barack Obama
- “all the education and good intentions in the world couldn’t help plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course.”― Barack Obama
- “Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity – one set of truths didn’t negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America.”― Barack Obama“Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity – one set of truths didn’t negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America.”― Barack Obama“
- Glory and tragedy, courage and stupidity – one set of truths didn’t negate the other. For war was contradiction, as was the history of America.”― Barack Obama
- “Over the last fifteen months we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been to fifty-seven states. I think, one left to go.”― Barack Obama
- “When things are bad,” Axe said, walking next to me as we left the December meeting, “no one cares that ‘things could have been worse.”― Barack Obama
- “I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”― Barack Obama