Powerful Barack Obama quotes that will inspire and motivate you.

- 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.
- If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
- 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.
- I think when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.
- But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That’s what I strive to do, that’s what I pray to do every day.
- When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
- You can’t give up your passion if things don’t work right away. You can’t lose heart, or grow cynical if there are twists and turns on your journey. The cynics may be the loudest voices – but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.
- Change is never easy, but always possible.
- You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
- Nothing in life that’s worth anything is easy.
- We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
- If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.
- Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
- 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.
- 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.
- We are the change we have been waiting for.
- Where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, We Can.
- When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
- We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
- We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort.
- 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.
- 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.