In 2008, Barack Obama was elected to his first term as president, and then in 2012 he won a second term as president. Obama has even been hailed as one of the most accomplished presidential speakers in modern history because of his immense popularity and erudite speeches.
A favorite of people in the US as well as in other countries, he is one of the most influential men in the world.
Barack Obama continues to disseminate his ideas and his commitments in the world. A remarkable and intelligent man who never ceases to inspire every generation. Here are some powerful quotes by Barack Obama that inspire millions of people worldwide:
Barack Obama Quotes
- But that’s not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”― Barack Obama
- “You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”― 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
- “I’m inspired by the people I meet in my travels–hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I’m inspired by the love people have for their children. And I’m inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.”― 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
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”
- “Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”― Barack Obama
- “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
- “Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”― Barack Obama
- “The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”― Barack Obama
- “I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.”
- “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
- “Yes We Can!”― Barack Obama
- “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”― Barack Obama
- “If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters to me, even if it’s not my child. If there’s a senior citizen somewhere who can’t pay for their prescription, who has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer – even if it’s not my grandparent. If there’s an Arab-American or Mexican-American family being rounded up by John Ashcroft without benefit of an attorney or due process, I know that that threatens my civil liberties. And I don’t have to be a woman to be concerned that the Supreme Court is trying to take away a woman’s right, because I know that my rights are next. It is that fundamental belief – I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper – that makes this country work.”― Barack Obama
- “There’s not a liberal America and a conservative America – there’s the United States of America.”― Barack Obama
- “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.”― Barak Obama
- “We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”― Barack Obama
- “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.”― Barack Obama
- “What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”― Barack Obama
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.”― Barack Obama
- “Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.”― Barack Obama
- “The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power–and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.”
