Barack Obama Quotes

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it

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

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

The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.

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

We are the change that we seek.

A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future

We don't ask for riches, we ask for dignity

I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels—hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency

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

Empathy is at the heart of the golden rule—do unto others as you would have them do to you

We are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better

Yes we can

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

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