Top 15 Barack Obama Quotes

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

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

Change is never easy, but always possible.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail

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

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have

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.

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

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you