You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach 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.
Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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.
Change is never easy, but always possible.
Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.
The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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.
When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.
Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.
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.
If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.
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.
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and lifelong support, let us pay respect to the women who carry out the hard work of motherhood with skill and grace, and let us remember those mothers who, though no longer with us, inspire us still.
Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new.
All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam
Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it.
Love and hope can conquer hate.
If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya.
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world.
Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all 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. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.
No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
We as a country have to do some soul-searching.
It's not just enough to change the players. We've gotta change the game.
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.
Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
We are running out of time
Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!
Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.
Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that.
What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.
The private sector is doing fine.
Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense
