Quotes from Barack Obama, a former president of the United States

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

Change is never easy, but always possible.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

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.

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.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

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

You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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