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- “No matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee you’ll need an education to do it.” Barack Obama
- “Every single one of you has something to offer; every single one of you has a responsibility to discover what that is.” Barack Obama
- “The most important advice I give to young people is just learn how to get stuff done.” Barack Obama
- “No matter how much you’ve done or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, always more to learn and always more to achieve.” Barack Obama
- “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.” Barack Obama
- “The leaders we revere, the businesses and institutions that last, are not generally the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement but of devotion to some bigger purpose.” Barack Obama
- “A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy. We too often let the external, the material things, serve as indicators that we’re doing well even though something inside of us tells us that we’re not doing our best.” Barack Obama
- “Worry more about what you want to do than what you want to be.” Barack Obama
- “If you are absorbed by what you’re doing, one of two things is going to happen. You’re going to get really good at it and whether you’re rewarded, recognized or get the positions you want or not, the journey will have been a good one.” Barack Obama
- “Even when things are tough, don’t lose respect for the other person.” Barack Obama
- “If the world’s going to get better, it’s going to be up to you. With everything suddenly feeling like it’s up for grabs, this is your time to seize the initiative. Nobody can tell you anymore that you should be waiting your turn. Nobody can tell you anymore, ‘This is how it’s always been done.’ More than ever, this is your moment.” Barack Obama
- “So rather than say, ‘What’s in it for me?’ or ‘What’s in it for my community?’ and ‘To heck with everyone else,’ stand up for and join up with everyone who’s struggling.” Barack Obama
- “The world is waiting for you, ready to be changed.” Barack Obama
- “For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate — our actions matter.” Barack Obama
- “Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the 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.” Barack Obama
- “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own… I’m always struck by people who think, ‘Well, it must be because I was just so smart.’ There are a lot of smart people out there. ‘It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.’ Let me tell you something — there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.” 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.” Barack Obama
- “We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.” Barack Obama
- “It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.” Barack Obama