About Barack Obama

44th President of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize winner. (b. 1961)

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• 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)
• 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)
• 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

• 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
• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.Carl Jung
• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.Carl Jung
• In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.Warren Buffett
• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.Warren Buffett

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