Many people would consider President Barack Obama to be a master
orator, but how should such a person’s power be judged? As one of the
quotes assembled herein declares, words inspire and these are some of
the most inspiring quotations of President Obama. -forrest green III
The Right Direction
1. “If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.”
2. “It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential.”
3. “It can’t happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.”
4. “No one is pro-abortion.”
5. “The best education I
received was working with people in the community on a grassroots
basis. Because what it taught me was that ordinary people, when they
are working together can do extraordinary things.”
Hope and Faith
1. “Change 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.”
2. “In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.”
3. “You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.”
4. “On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.”
5. “In the end, … that’s what
this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or
do we participate in a politics of hope?”
Using Resources
1. “If we aren’t willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in those at all.”
2. “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.”
3. “I wish this country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.”
4. “Words do inspire.”
5. “Time and again these men
and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw
so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than
the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences
of birth or wealth or faction.”
American Society
1. “There is not a liberal
America and a conservative America; there is the United States of
America. There is not a black America and a white America and Latino
America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America.”
2. “People don’t expect
government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their
bones that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure
that every child in America has a decent shot at life and that the
doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better.”
3. “I stand here knowing that
my story is part of the larger American story that I owe a debt to all
those who came before me and that in no other country on Earth is my
story even possible.”
4. “I will ask you to join in
the work of remaking this nation the only way it’s been done in America
for 221 years – block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by
calloused hand.”
5. “The true test of the
American ideal is whether we’re able to recognize our failings and then
rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow
ourselves to be shaped by events and history or whether we act to shape
those. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life’s big
winners and losers or whether we build a community where, at the very
least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead and reach their
dreams.”
