Barack Obama Quotes

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

I always want to grow and top myself.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I could live a normal life. My motivation is only to take on new challenges.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

I don't feel like I've hit my stride. So I wonder what the moment will be when I get to be who I want to be.

I'm never content. I'm always searching, looking for things to better myself.

If I have any basic motivation, it's to inspire people to make their life a masterpiece.

You figure out what you value in this life, and then you go for it. For me, it was freedom.

I have far ascended beyond every ambition my 16-year-old self ever had.

Your life is big. Keep reaching.

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power

Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections.

It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

I challenge myself everywhere, onstage, on the golf course. Hey, isn't that the point of it all? To keep getting better? Otherwise why do it?

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.