Barack Obama Inspirational Quotes

#1. Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.

Jamie Johnson

#2. This world is like a big classroom, and USA is the teacher, while other countries are the students, as one student tries to mess with the teacher, or does something really bad. The teacher shall teach him a nice lesson. Use your brain before you try to mess with the odds.

Barack Obama

#3. I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

Barack Obama

#4. Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

Barack Obama

#5. Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

Graydon Carter

#6. 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

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

Barack Obama

#8. The era of manufacturing consent has given way to the era of manufacturing news. Soon media newsrooms will drop the pretence, and start hiring theatre directors instead of journalists.

Arundhati Roy

#9. Been living on this earth for so long now and still don't know what a happy life feels like. I'm ready for a change.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#10. Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.

Nikki Sixx

#11. 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.

Barack Obama

#12. To me, I love real estate because you can feel it.

Donald Trump

#13. All problems in mathematics are psychological.

Pierre Deligne

#14. It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land.
Yes we can!

Barack Obama

#15. Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.

Barack Obama

#16. Without question, conditions in the Haiti are worse since Aristide's removal, and continue to deteriorate.

Charles B. Rangel

#17. For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

Barack Obama

#18. Barack Obama's inspirational whoosh to the presidency in 2008 was unusual. Most campaigns are less exhilarating; indeed, they are downright disappointing - until someone wins.

Joe Klein

#19. It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight!

Barack Obama

#20. You're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

Taylor Swift

#21. We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.

Barack Obama

#22. Everything is there: the love of Art.

Gustave Flaubert

#23. Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.

Bear Grylls

#24. You can't control the universe, but if you learn to practice meditation and mindfulness you may be able to control yourself.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Money is but one venue for generosity.
Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

Alan Cohen

#26. I need not say I meet with every kindness both here and at Stamford, and can only wonder what people can see in me to call forth so much attention and regard. They do not see me as I see myself, and it is my mercy that they do not know all the workings of a vile and depraved heart.

J.C. Philpot

#27. I like being president because i get a cool house

Barack Obama

#28. I'm not thinking about what needs to be on the radio. I'm not thinking about anything other than - I'm just going to let this music come out of me and not have any sort of preconceived notion of what I should do. I'm just going to do it.

Brian McKnight

#29. 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.

Barack Obama

#30. If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

Barack Obama

#31. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

Barack Obama

#32. You Can't Rest on Your Laurels. Your Own Body of Work Is Yet to Come.

Barack Obama

#33. Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action

Bob Proctor

#34. 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

#35. Listen to understand rather than listen to respond.

Barack Obama

#36. America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.

Barack Obama

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

Barack Obama