Barack Obama (44th President of the United States)
He was born on 4th August 1961, to a Kenyan father and an American mother. He was the first African-American president of the United States.
He was elected as an
- Illinois Senate (1996–2004)
- U.S. Senate (2005–2008)
- President (2009–2017)
Let’s see some of the famous quotes by Barack Obama
Most Famous Quotes by 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 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
Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.
Barack Obama
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.
Barack Obama
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Barack Obama
Progress will come in fits and starts. It’s not always a straight line. It’s not always smooth path.
Barack Obama
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Barack Obama
If you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like or who you love.
Barack Obama
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment and it comes with plenty of failure along the way.
Barack Obama
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
Barack Obama
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
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
Barack Obama
When we don’t pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the day, when we choose not to make our voices and opinions heard, that’s when democracy breaks down. That’s when power is abused. That’s when the most extreme voices in our society fill the void that we leave. That’s when powerful interests and their lobbyists are most able to buy access and influence in the corridors of power – because none of us are there to speak up and stop them.
Barack Obama
I’m inspired by the people I meet in my travels–hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I’m inspired by the love people have for their children. And I’m inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.
Barack Obama
Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
Barack Obama
Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack Obama
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
Barack Obama
Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them.
Barack Obama
One voice can change a room.
Barack Obama
The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression; it is more speech — the voices of tolerance that rally against bigotry and blasphemy, and lift up the values of understanding and mutual respect.
Barack Obama