Barack Obama

• A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
• Change is never easy, but always possible.
• 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.
• Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time.
• Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable.
• Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.
• Focus your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little life of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
• 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.
• If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.
• If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
• Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
• No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
• Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
• The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.
• There is no excuse for not trying.
• We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
• We will outstretch the hand if you unclench your fist.
• Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.
• You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.
• You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
• it's important to make sure that we're talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.