Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

—Barack Obama

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

—Barack Obama

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

More quotations tagged with “success”

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

—Arthur Rubinstein

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

—Anthony Trollope

To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.

—Anna Pavlova

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

—Albert Schweitzer

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

—Albert Einstein

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