Top 500 Barack Obama Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Yes We Can!”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Change Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

2. “Never give up on your dreams.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Quotes About Dreams

3. “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

Featured in: Focus Quotes, Leadership Quotes, Change Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Empowering Quotes

4. “There is no excuse for not trying.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Persistence Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

5. “Change is never easy, but always possible.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Short Quotes, Monday Motivation Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Progress Quotes

6. “Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness.”

— Barack Obama

7. “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.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

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

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Encouragement Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Self-Empowerment Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Quotes About Trying

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

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Future Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Vision Quotes, Progress Quotes

10. “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.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Positive Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Change Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

11. “Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Quality Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Character Quotes

12. “Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Study Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students

13. “Your voice can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Empowering Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Moving Quotes

14. “Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Learning Quotes, Quotes About Kids

15. “For the world has changed, and we must change with it.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Transformation Quotes, Adaptability Quotes, Progress Quotes, Quotes About the World

16. “We are running out of time.”

— Barack Obama

17. “Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.”

— Barack Obama

18. “We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Resilience Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Moving Forward Quotes

19. “Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Quotes About Books And Reading, Education Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Book Quotes

20. “Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Quotes About Believing, Graduation Quotes

21. “Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Future Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Destiny Quotes

22. “Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Impact Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Justice Quotes, Government Quotes

23. “The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Education Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes, Future Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Vision Quotes

24. “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.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Meaning Quotes, Impact Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Values Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes

25. “The future is ours to win. But to get there we can’t just stand still...”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Winning Quotes, Future Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Vision Quotes

26. “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.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Empathy Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Peace Quotes, Compassion Quotes

27. “Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Dedication Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Work Hard Quotes

28. “I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”

— Barack Obama

29. “A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Values Quotes

30. “Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Change Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Vision Quotes

31. “We don’t have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society.”

— Barack Obama

32. “We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Change Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes, Engagement Quotes

33. “We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Empathy Quotes, Service Quotes, Values Quotes, Compassion Quotes

34. “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

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Graduation Quotes

35. “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.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Identity Quotes

36. “Don’t just consume things, create things.”

— Barack Obama

37. “When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Quotes About Strength, Never Give Up Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Quotes About Giving

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

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Quotes About Hope

39. “Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Engagement Quotes, Influence Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Government Quotes

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

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Journey Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Path Quotes

41. “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.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Accountability Quotes, Government Quotes

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

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Engagement Quotes

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

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Democracy Quotes

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

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Resilience Quotes

45. “Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.”

— Barack Obama

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

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Willpower Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Engagement Quotes

47. “What Washington needs is adult supervision.”

— Barack Obama

48. “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.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Moving Quotes

49. “The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Justice Quotes

50. “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 can 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.”

— Barack Obama

Featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Engagement Quotes, Influence Quotes, Epic Quotes