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.
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Barack ObamaSpeech on Super Tuesday night (2008)
About Barack Obama
44th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner. (b. 1961)
More from Barack Obama
- 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.Iowa Caucus victory speech (2008)
- Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself.Knox College Commencement Address (2005)
- It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.Knox College Commencement Address (2005)
- Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.New Hampshire primary night speech (2008)
- I'm asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours.Farewell Address (2017)
- Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.Campaign rally speech (2008)
More quotes on change
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.Henry David Thoreau
- Things do not change; we change.Henry David Thoreau
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Nietzsche
- What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.Friedrich Nietzsche
- When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.Viktor Frankl
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