Barack Obama Quotes

“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.”

“Yes we can.”

“Hope in the face of difficulty, hope in the face of uncertainty, the audacity of hope!”

“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 not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.”

“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, tonight is your answer.”

“Change has come to America.”

“The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. But America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight.”

“We have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.”

“Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again.”

“Our challenges may be new, but those values upon which our success depends, honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism, these things are old.”

“There's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America.”

“It is that fundamental belief, I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper, that makes this country work.”

“Let us remember we are all part of one American family.”

“This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.”

“We know the march is not yet over. We know the race is not yet won.”

“Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick.”

“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 you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

“Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complainin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.”

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

“Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures.”

“Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer.”

“You can't drop out of school and just drop into a good job.”