“Yes We Can!”
— Barack Obama
“Never give up on your dreams.”
“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.”
“There is no excuse for not trying.”
“Change is never easy, but always possible.”
“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.”
“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”
“Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness.”
“We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.”
“Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.”
“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.”
“Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”
“Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”
“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”
“We are running out of time.”
“Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!”
“Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.”
“Your voice can change the world.”
“For the world has changed, and we must change with it.”
“I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”
“We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.”
“We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”
“The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.”
“We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger.”
“Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.”
“My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.”
“The future is ours to win. But to get there we can’t just stand still...”
“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.”
“Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.”
“Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.”
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
“Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.”
“Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.”
“Don’t just consume things, create things.”
“There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.”
“Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.”
“Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.”
“What Washington needs is adult supervision.”
“Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.”
“We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can’t fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won’t move us forward.”
“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.”
“Be conscious of God and speak always the truth.”
“The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own.”
“Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential – that every life matters.”
“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
“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.”
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