Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.

—Barack Obama

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Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American retired politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American to serve as president. Obama represented Illinois in the United States...

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You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come.

—Barack Obama

Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different.

—Barack Obama

We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant in the weeks to come. We've been asked to pause for a reality check; we've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

—Barack Obama

Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create ripple effects. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity and boost our economy.

—Barack Obama

That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.

—Barack Obama

More quotations tagged with “possessions”

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

—Vida D. Scudder

Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

To have little is to possess.
To have plenty is to be perplexed.

—Pliny the Younger

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