30 Most Inspirational Barack Obama Quotes

Barack Obama is an American politician and the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Obama served one term in the Illinois Senate and is the first African American President of the United States. you have to admire some of the quotes he said. Which are your favorite Barack Obama quotes?

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We’ve put together this collection of the Most Inspirational Barack Obama Quotes:

Top 30 Barack Obama Quotes

1. “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

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

3. “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

4. “Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.” – Barack Obama

5. If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.” – Barack Obama

6. “Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, or where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.” – Barack Obama

7. “Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.” – Barack Obama

8. “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

9. “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone – and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.” – Barack Obama

10th of 30 Barack Obama Quotes

“Now, as a nation, we don’t promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That’s an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.” – Barack Obama

11. “What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.” – Barack Obama

12. “My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.” – Barack Obama

13. “I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.” – Barack Obama

14. “We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.” – Barack Obama

15. “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

16. The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife. – Barack Obama

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

19. “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

20th of 30 Barack Obama Quotes

“You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.” – Barack Obama

21. “The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.” – Barack Obama

22. “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.”
― Barack Obama

23. “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

24.“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
― Barack Obama

25. “We are the change we have been waiting for.”
― Barack Obama

26. “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
― Barack Obama

27. “In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”
― Barack Obama

28. “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
― Barack Obama

29. “We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.”
― Barack Obama

Last of 30 Barack Obama Quotes

“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.”
― Barack Obama

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