Yes, we can
Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
[on Michelle] After about 15 years I finally figured out that she’s always right!
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.
I’m a history buff, and I know that big changes take time. But I also know that, setting politics aside, usually things are never as good as you think they are or as bad as you think they are. And that has served me well temperamentally.
[living at the White House] This isn’t about us. There’s so much history here that no one family can claim this space as their own.
Michelle’s like Beyoncé in that song Let me upgrade ya!’ She upgraded me.
There are secret opportunities hidden inside every failure.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don’t quit.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.
The more people tell you it’s not possible, that it can’t be done, the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong. Treat the word ‘impossible’ as nothing more than motivation.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.
Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they’ll be there for you.
You don’t drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Bigger than life is not difficult for me. I am bigger than life.
lf you dont think everyday is a great day, try going without one.
If you aim at nothing, you will hit every time.
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
