Barack Obama

“It is that promise that has always set this country apart - that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams.”

“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.”

“You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”

“Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.”

“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.”

“Yes we can.”

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

“We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it.”

“There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America.”

“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.”

“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”

“We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, we ask you to believe in yours.”

“Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.”

“Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.”

“Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us.”

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

“It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”

“When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.”

“In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.”

“We have a stake in one another... what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.”