Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Barack Obama Quotes
CourageIdentityLeadership If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
CommitmentDutyFutureTransition Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not.
FaithToleranceUnity And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.
CompanionshipDaily LifeLife PaceLongingSimple Happiness I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
FuturePerseveranceResilience The 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.
FutureResponsibilitySelf-DeterminationSupportUnity After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
CommunityDutyFreedomPatriotismResponsibility We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
DeterminationExperienceJourneyPerseveranceTravel Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.
AutonomyLibertyResistance Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.
Climate ActionEnvironmental ResponsibilityFuture GenerationsUnityUrgency This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Healthcare That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage.
DangerNational SecurityPublic HealthThreat When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
AcceptanceFamilyInclusivityUnderstanding I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
Prosperity We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.
DistinctionMilitary and Domestic Law EnforcementNational Identity I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
AmbitionHard WorkPotentialSelf-Improvement 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.
BelongingEmpathyImmigrationNational IdentityStrangerhood My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
Global FreedomHuman RightsIntegrityJusticeMorality Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
CommunityEthics BeliefsFutureHard WorkPerseverance It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
AccessibilityChild DevelopmentEducationFuture PlanningWorkforce Development It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
ExceptionalismNational Identity I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
CitizenshipDemocracyFairnessGritKindness Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
EqualityFairnessSocial JusticeWorkers Rights Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
ComplexityIntegrityNuance Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
LegacyPatriotismPrincipleUnityValue Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Community EngagementNational AgendaPolitical TransitionPublic Input Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
Community DivisionRacial TensionSocial Justice In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.