Popular Barack Obama's Quotes And Sayings

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.

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.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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.

When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

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.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Greatness is never free; it must be earned.

You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Fighting for what you think is right is always worth it.

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.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

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.

Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

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

It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

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.

As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide.

Your voice can change the world.

If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

I don't believe people should to be able to own guns.

We will finish the race.

Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns.

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.

The best education I received was working with people in the community on a grassroots basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they are working together can do extraordinary things.

Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

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.

While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.

I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

While freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth.

Stamina. There is a greater physical element to this job than you would think, just being able to grind it out. And I think your ability to not just mentally and emotionally, but physically be able to say, "We got this. We're going to be OK."

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

Don't let your failures define you.

As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

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 peoples' lives a little bit better?

If you work hard. And are responsible. You should be rewarded.

I believe in evolution, scientific inquiry, and global warming; I believe in free speech, whether politically correct or politically incorrect, and I am suspicious of using government to impose anybody's religious beliefs -including my own- on nonbelievers.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

When people see opportunity, when they have a sense of control of their own destiny, then they're less vulnerable to the propaganda and twisted ideologies that have been attracting young people - particularly being turbocharged through social media.

Someday, our children, and our children’s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?

Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth.

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.

My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

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.

And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems.

Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution.

I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.

So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

Your ability to let go is part of the duty that you have.

The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world.

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.

Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason.

I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.

I think [Obamacare] will survive. Or it may be called something else. And as I said I don't don't mind.

The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.

Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond.

No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.

I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. That's just not part of my religious makeup.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law

Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense

I'm a warrior for the middle class.