No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn and always more to achieve.
— Barack ObamaThe most important advice I give to young people is just learn how to get stuff done.
— Barack ObamaWorry more about what you want to do than what you want to be.
— Barack ObamaEven when things are tough, don't lose respect for the other person.
— Barack ObamaEvery single one of you has something to offer; every single one of you has a responsibility to discover what that is.
— Barack ObamaNo matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee you'll need an education to do it.
— Barack ObamaSo rather than say, 'What's in it for me?' or 'What's in it for my community?' and ‘To heck with everyone else,’ stand up for and join up with everyone who's struggling.
— Barack ObamaThe world is waiting for you, ready to be changed.
— Barack ObamaFor all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate — our actions matter.
— Barack ObamaHope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it.
— Barack ObamaChange 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.
— Barack ObamaIf you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
— Barack ObamaWe don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
— Barack ObamaThe future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
— Barack ObamaI think that a woman has a right to control her own body, and that includes the right to have an abortion.
— Barack Obama