30 Best Barack Obama Quotes

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. – Barack Obama

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. – Barack Obama

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

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it. – Barack Obama

My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. – Barack Obama

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. – Barack Obama

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on. – Barack Obama

In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it. – Barack Obama

That's the price and the promise of citizenship. – Barack Obama

We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. – Barack Obama

Progress is not inevitable. It is the result of choices we make together. – Barack Obama

We have a stake in one another… what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart. – Barack Obama

Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. – Barack Obama

Yes, we can. – Barack Obama

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. – Barack Obama

Our stories may be singular, but our destiny is shared. – Barack Obama

The strongest weapon against hateful speech is not repression; it is more speech. – Barack Obama

Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table. – Barack Obama

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. – Barack Obama

We cannot solve our challenges with the same thinking we used when we created them. – Barack Obama

Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. – Barack Obama

The cynics may be the loudest voices—but I promise you, they will accomplish the least. – Barack Obama

We need a culture that values hard work and responsibility, not a culture that values the wealthiest. – Barack Obama

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America. – Barack Obama

We choose hope over fear. We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better. – Barack Obama

I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change—but in yours. – Barack Obama

Our power doesn't come from some self-declared savior. It comes from those who persist and those who resist. – Barack Obama

The world is interconnected, and the crises we face are shared. – Barack Obama

We, the people, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense. – Barack Obama