Obama Quotes: Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States and has been in office since 2009. He has said many inspirational quotes during his time as president, and these quotes have become popular among people.
Obama Quotes
“The most important thing I can do for my country as president is to help in any way I can to get America back on track.”
“I believe that we are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions and that what unites us is stronger than what divides us.”
“We are not a collection of red states and blue states. We are the United States of America.”
“We cannot turn back the clock, but we can make sure that it does not turn forward again.”
“I’m just kidding, I’m not going anywhere,” Obama joked. “But I will say that we are not as divided as we seem. We’re not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states.”
“I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could’ve mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it.”
“A little grayer” and “maybe a little thicker around the waist” but that he had been an “excellent president”
“I can’t think of a time in my life when I’ve been prouder of my country.” – Barack Obama
“You don’t make change by sitting on the sidelines. You make change by getting in the game. And if you wanna make life fair, you gotta participate in the fight.” – Barack Obama
“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
“Don’t just teach your children to be happy. Teach them to be resilient, so that they can deal with whatever life throws at them.”
“I believe in science.”
“There are no black Americans who are not under the threat of police brutality.”
“What is most important is not how effectively I serve this office but how I am able to empower others”
“We have never had a female president before”
“We are not as divided as our politics suggests.”
“Yes, We Can.”
“The world will judge us by our actions.”
“We cannot afford to be cynical about the future, because the future will be here very soon.”
“I’ve always believed in the power of us.”
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…”
“I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being.”
“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
“Change will not
“You have to believe in yourself. You have to be persistent. You have to keep going.”
“I’m a big believer in looking at the evidence.”
“The most important thing I can do is to help people understand that America is not just about what can be done for them; it’s also about what can be done by them, together, as one nation.”
“When you get knocked down, get up again”
“We need more than just an economic recovery. We need a moral recovery.”
“If you want something badly enough and you work hard enough and your dream is big enough anything’s
Obama Quotes On Leadership
Obama Quotes On Leadership
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.” – Barack Obama
“I think we all understand that this is a moment in history. What we want to do, I think, is make sure that we seize it.” – Barack Obama
“You can’t just tell somebody who’s never had a job before, ‘Work hard.’ You know they may work hard for a week and then they’ll come in Monday morning and say, ‘I don’t like this job.’ And then you say, ‘Why not?’ And they say, ‘It’s too hard.'”
“No matter what you do in life, don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
“The most important ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
“Leadership is about making sure that everybody in the country has a chance to live up to their God-given potential.”
“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” – Carl Sagan
“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” and “It’s not being a great leader that makes you a hero; it
“You are not here to lead yourself, you’re here to lead others.”
In a world that is more connected than ever before, the idea of building walls won’t make us safer. We will trade in our most powerful asset – our collective imagination – for fear. Obama
“We are part of a global community. We are now connected, whether we like it or not, to the rest of the world.” – Barack Obama
“I can say with confidence that the United States has been and always will be a world leader when it comes to reducing carbon emissions.”
“It’s not enough to just have an American presence in space, we need to have a human presence in space.” – Barack Obama
“I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if we do our part, then eventually the politics will follow. That’s what happened with civil rights. That’s what happened with women’s rights. That’s what happened with workers’ rights.”- Barack Obama
“I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if we work together, if we confront the challenges of our time in the right way, America will continue to lead the world.” – Barack Obama
“You can’t make good decisions unless you ask good questions. And you can’t get the right answers unless you have the right information.”
Obama Quotes On Life
Obama Quotes On Life
“I can’t do it by myself.”
“I’ve had too many people who didn’t believe in me.”
“Don’t let your past dictate who you are.”
“You’re never too old to set another goal or dream another dream.”
“If you’re walking down a dark alley and you’re not afraid, then you’re not paying attention.”
“The point is that if there’s work to be done, somebody will do it.”
“I’m convinced that we are closer now than we have ever been before to the time when all our children can live in peace.”
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something.”
“At its best America is a place where people
“We all have something inside that tells us when we’re on the right track.” – Barack Obama
“Do what you love, and then figure out how to make money doing it.” – Barack Obama
“I don’t believe in pessimism. If something is not working, then I simply find a new way.” – Barack Obama
“I am the son of a black man and a white woman, born in Hawaii, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii. I was raised with the help of two proud African-American grandparents who helped raise me.” – Barack Obama
“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”- Barack Obama
“I am the son of a black man and a white woman, and I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who loved me as his own son. I am married to a black American who carries within her the blood of slaves and slave owners—an inheritance we pass on to our two precious daughters. I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins of every race and every hue scattered across three continents, and for as long as I live, I will never forget that in no other country on earth is my story even possible.” -Barack Obama
“You don’t have to be a great man to do great things. You just have to do small things with great love.”- -Barack Obama
“Believe in yourself. Believe in your future. And believe, once more, in America.”
“You can’t change your past but you can change your future.”
“If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
“You can’t make somebody else’s sacrifice for them.” – Barack Obama
“When I think about all the work that it took to get me into this position, I realize that it was a lot more than just luck.” – Barack Obama
“I think it’s important to remember that you can’t change everybody’s opinion all at once.” – Barack Obama
Barack Obama Inspirational Quotes
Barack Obama Inspirational Quotes
“Success isn’t measured by how high you climb but by the distance you travel.” – Barrack Obama
“America is a place where no matter what you look like or where you come from or who you worship you can make it if you try.”- Barrack Obama
“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.”- Barrack Obama
“We are one people all of us defending the American dream.”- Barrack Obama
“I am confident that our children will someday live in a nation where they will not be judged by- Barrack Obama
“Life is Brief and Filled with Wonder” – Barack Obama
“Becoming Myself” Michelle Obama’s Letter to Her Teenage Daughter
“I’ve seen how inadequate words can be in bringing about lasting change. I’ve seen how inadequate my own words have been. And so I must rely on my deeds to speak for me.”
He has also said “The arc of history is long but it bends towards justice.”
“There are a lot of folks out there who are scared, because either they don’t know what’s going on or they think that things have never happened before. And I understand that fear, but what I want to do is to try to provide reassurance for people.”
“I’m not somebody who believes that America is so weak and fragile that it can’t handle a few bad apples.”
“It’s not about me. It’s about you.”
“I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people.”
He also said: “A free world will be one where our common humanity is recognized.”
“A free world will be one where we are judged by what we say and what we do.”
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – Barack Obama
“Change is never easy, but it’s always possible” by Barack Obama highlights the importance of change in our lives and how we should not be afraid of it because change is inevitable and necessary for growth.
“The responsibility of citizenship is to participate in the civic life of the country. The right to vote, to speak freely, and to worship as one wishes are fundamental rights that should be available to all citizens.”
“We are not a nation of immigrants. We are a nation of citizens.”- President Barack Obama
Obama Quotes On Future
“The next wave of economic growth will come from harnessing the power of artificial intelligence.”
“If we want to have more jobs, we need to be less fearful of automation and more excited about its potential.”
“We’ve got to make sure that AI doesn’t just benefit a few but that it benefits all of us.”
“I think the fact is that AI is going to make our lives better, smarter, healthier.”
“I’m confident in my lifetime we’ll see enormous progress in machine intelligence, things like computers being able
“I think AI is going to make both our lives, and our kids’ lives, more productive.”
“I am confident that we will make good decisions about how to face the challenges of artificial intelligence.”
“We’ve got to be careful with AI. If we get too far down the road, then it’s pretty hard for us to turn back.”
“If you’re just looking at raw productivity, then machines are making people smarter. That’s true. But there are other things that are happening.”
“It is not just a matter of what jobs might disappear; it’s also a question of who might benefit from these new
“We are on the cusp of something maybe as big as the Industrial Revolution, but it’s happening faster and it’s happening with a lot more disruption.”
“It is not just about what we can do with these new technologies, but what we should do and how we should think about our obligations to future generations.”
“The promise of AI is that it can help us take on some of the toughest challenges facing humanity while at the same time improving our daily lives.”
“I am confident that this innovation will bring jobs and opportunities to many Americans who need them, and I am hopeful that America leads in developing these new technologies.” “AI will make computers better doctors than humans in diagnosing cancers
“I’m confident that we can shape AI to reflect our values, and benefit us rather than harm us.”
“Artificial intelligence is going to make our lives more productive, it’s going to make us more knowledgeable, it’s going to help us stay healthier.”
“Technology doesn’t have moral values… but I do think that they reflect our values.”
“If you have a computer program that can learn from experience and start out by imitating human beings, you don’t have to program in all of this stuff. You just let it learn on its own.”
“Artificial intelligence is going to make both our lives and our jobs better, but it’s not going to make life as we know it obsolete.”
“I think AI could be the next, biggest form of technological progress.”
Michelle Obama Quotes
“When I watched my mother march for civil rights as a little girl in 1964, she was standing up for me, too.”
“Don’t ever let anyone made you feel like you don’t matter. You do”
“You’ll need skin as thick as rhinoceros hide before you can survive out there.”
“You can’t be anything you want to be without good help.”
“If you’re feeling weighed down by all of life’s stresses and baggage, take time to stop and unpack them so that they don’t crush your spirit.”
“I found it was easier to talk about who I wanted to be than who I did not
She is an exceptionally talented woman with a deep understanding of what it means to be both a mother and an accomplished professional woman.” – Barack Obama
We want our children—and all children—to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
“I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.”
“We teach girls that they cannot be emotional, that they cannot show passion.”
“When we don’t allow ourselves to fully experience our emotions, we numb ourselves.”
“The truth is nobody knows what it’s like to be a woman walking down the street alone at night.”
“We are moving into an era in which the technology itself is going to be able to do more and more stuff for us.” – Barack Obama
“I want to tell you all something that I think should be said very clearly so that people understand how you should approach this work,” “Don’t let your light shine so bright that they can’t see the dark places.”
“That’s why my mother taught me and my father each time he left our house to go back out into the world, he needed to come back with a ‘welcome home.'”
“Every day is a new opportunity to make a difference in someone’s life.”
“Service is the rent we pay for living in a civilized society.” -John F. Kennedy
“Service is not just a job, it’s a way of life.” -Ronald Reagan
That’s when America soars, when we look out for one another and we take care of each other, when we root for one another’s success, when we strive to do better and to be better than the generation that came before us and try to build something better for generations to come, that’s why we do what we do. That’s the whole point of public service. Barack Obama
None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands.
Barack Obama
One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again. Barack Obama
Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of it’s flattering but, you know, one of the things that I try to remind people of is, is that I was in politics as a state senator operating in obscurity for many years. Before that I was a community organizer working in low income communities in Chicago and nobody knew my name then. And so, having involved myself in public service for a pretty long time without getting too much attention, hopefully I can keep some of the attention that I’m getting now in perspective. Barack Obama
America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren’t even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them. Barack Obama
Obama Quotes Funny
“I’m sorry, but I don’t have any plans to be in Jerusalem for the funeral.” -Barack Obama,
“I am not going to change my mind just because you are feeling a little down.” -Barack Obama
“I’m not a dictator.”
“I’m not president of the world.”
“Just because I can’t see you, doesn’t mean I don’t love you.”
“You know, I just wanted to make a change. People were trying to tell me what to do and how to do it. And I just wanted to try something different.”
“We have been through tough times before and we will get through them again.”
“I think it’s fair to say that if you go back and look at our entire history, there’s probably no country on Earth that has been more successful than the United States of America. And if you go back and look at our entire history, there’s probably no country on Earth where more people have been more successful than the United States.”
“I’m not going to sit here and tell you I’m a perfect man… I’m just not going to sit here and tell you that.”
“I’m not a crook.” Barack Obama
“I’ve been told I’m the worst president since James Buchanan.” -Barack Obama
“You can’t make it on your own, but you don’t need anybody else.” -Barack Obama
“I’m confident that we’re going to be able to address these issues, and I know that there are going to be some who disagree with me. But I’m confident that we’ll be able to work through it.” -Barrack Obama
“If you’re looking for the American Dream, you’ve come to the wrong place.” -Barack Obama
“I think I’m just going to start wearing one of those ‘No Trespassing’ signs around my neck.”-Barack Obama
“I think we should have a rule that everybody has to stop talking about their vacation pictures.”-Barack Obama
“I’m not worried about the future, I’m focused on the present.”-Barack Obama
“I’m not going to let my guard down until we take out those bastards in Iran.”-Barack Obama
“If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.”-Barack Obama
“I’m not a perfect man, but I am far from a perfect president.”-Barack Obama
“The best argument against democracy is a conversation with someone who doesn’t know what it is.”-Barack Obama
“I’m not going to walk away from all that we’ve built together because of some bad decisions made by some folks who couldn’t keep it together.”-Barack Obama
“I do apologize, I know I was little late tonight. I was running on CPT. Which stands for, jokes that white people should not make.” -President Obama at the 2016 WHCD referencing Hillary Clinton and Bill de Blasio’s tasteless “CP Time” joke made earlier in the year”- Barack Obama
“I wanna thank BET for agreeing to film Barack Obama’s block party.” – President Obama at BET’s “Love And Happiness: An Obama Celebration” event”- Barack Obama
“I need you to call up cousin Pookie and say, ‘Pookie, it’s time to vote.’” -President Obama at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Nevada”- Barack Obama
“With that, I just have two more words to say: Obama, out.” – President Obama channeling his inner Kobe Bryant during his final White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech”- Barack Obama
“Tell J.R. and everybody to put a shirt on, though. Can’t be just walkin’ around without a shirt for like, the whole week. Now Shumpert’s taking off his shirt, Kyrie’s takin off his shirt…come on, man. But I guess if you built like that, you know….” -President Obama while joking with Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Tyronn Lue during a congratulatory call following their 2016 NBA Championship win.”- Barack Obama
“In my final year, my approval ratings keep going up. The last time I was this high, I was trying to decide on my major.” -President Obama joking about his college smoking habits during the 2016 WHCD”- Barack Obama
“Work, work, work, work, work” -President Obama singing Rihanna’s “Work” while slow jamming the news on Jimmy Fallon this summer”- Barack Obama
“This event may be called “Love and Happiness” but, much to, I know, your sadness and disagreement, I will not be signing Al Green.” -President Obama at the BET “Love And Happiness” -event Barack Obama
“Guests of the Kennedys apparently did The Twist in the East Room. May not sound like a big deal to you but, that was sort of the twerking of their time. It was bold. There will also be no twerking tonight. At least, not by me.” -President Obama at BET’s “Love And Happiness: An Obama Celebration.” -Barack Obama
Obama Quotes On Love
“Love is patient, love is kind.” – Barack Obama
“You can’t give up when you’re down. You got to keep fighting.” – Barack Obama
“What matters in life is not just what we achieve but how we care for one another.” – Barack Obama
“We have to reach out to those who are lonelier than we are–the lonely, the lost, the forgotten–those who feel like they don’t belong anywhere.” -Barack Obama
“To be loved by someone gives you strength; to love
“It is how you love someone that really matters.”
“If you want to be happy, find someone who makes you happy.”
“Love is a verb. It needs action, not just a noun.”
“You don’t need to be in love to be in the moment.”
“The most important thing we do is just be there for each other.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” -Barack Obama
been quoted saying some inspiring quotes about love in his speeches and interviews, which we will discuss here.
“What’s more, we’re all connected: we’re not just Americans, or Europeans, or Africans; we’re also brothers and sisters – bound together by shared hopes, dreams, challenges – and love.” -Barack Obama
“Love is love is love is love.”-Barack Obama
“It’s not about how much you give. It’s about how much you care.” -Barack Obama
“I believe that there are no limits to what a man can achieve if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit.”-Barack Obama
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”-Barack Obama
“We are not defined by the love we give, but by the love we receive.”- Barack Obama
“Love is our most important human need.”- Barack Obama
“It’s not enough to say ‘I love you,’ unless you mean it.”- Barack Obama
“The measure of love is not how much you give, but how much you have to give.”
“You can’t just be in the world, you have to make the world work for you.”
“I think that’s why we’re so drawn to love stories, because they show us what it’s like to be human.”
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
“Love is a verb.”
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”- Barack Obama
“Love is not about finding the perfect person. It’s about recognizing the imperfect person that you can still love with all your heart.”- Barack Obama
“The most important thing we have to offer one another is our love and respect.”- Barack Obama
“Love is a verb. Love is not just feeling it, but doing something about it.”
“We have to make sure that our actions match our words, that we’re not just preaching to people, we’re living out what we say.”
“You know what you have to do every day for your future to be bright? You’ve got to fall in love with yourself.”
“It’s hard sometimes when you feel like you don’t deserve someone who loves you and treats you well.”
“Love is a verb. It’s not something that happens automatically.”
I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don’t contract them. -Barack Obama
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.-Barack Obama
America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love.-Barack Obama
If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.-Barack Obama
Jesus lived a life of peace, love, kindness and forgiveness, during the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, may we all do our best to follow his example.-Barack Obama
On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes, when I’ve listened to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.-Barack Obama
