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.
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Barack ObamaIowa Caucus victory speech (2008)
About Barack Obama
44th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner. (b. 1961)
More from Barack Obama
- 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.Speech on Super Tuesday night (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 mindset
- Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.Theodore Roosevelt
- It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.Theodore Roosevelt
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.Franklin D. Roosevelt
- You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.Eleanor Roosevelt
- Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Eleanor Roosevelt
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