Barack Obama Quotes

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

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.

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

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

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

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

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

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

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.

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

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it.

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

If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.

The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

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. . .

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that.

If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.

Love and hope can conquer hate.

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

I don't think the Donald Trump's qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

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

It's not just enough to change the players. We've gotta change the game.

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

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

We as a country have to do some soul-searching.

Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.

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

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.

Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.

We are running out of time

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed.

Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

The private sector is doing fine.

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

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