Barack Obama Quotes

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.

We can always begin again.

Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.

There is always a time to move on.

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

I'm totally convinced that the end of my football career is just the beginning of something I haven't even discovered yet.

Sometimes I think about retiring but not stopping work. Just 're-tiring' - put on some new tires and go on to do something else.

I want to retire here, man. The Suns gave me an opportunity to revive myself and why would I want to go anywhere?

At a certain point, the graduate school thing didn't work out, and that meant I was liberated.

I can't tell you how many times I get into a taxicab in New York or Los Angeles, and I'm talking to somebody who is a recent immigrant who was a doctor or lawyer or engineer or professor in the country they just came from. They're starting over again in life, and I think the majority of people out there can relate to that.

When I started at 'SNL,' I was lucky to start early. So now starting on 'Update,' I am the age when most people are when they start doing that. It feels like a different world and capacity, like starting over in another challenge. A heightened challenge.

I've put football behind me.

I've been the longest-serving police commissioner in the history of the department, but it's time in my life to move on. I'm ready for new adventures, new challenges.

A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

It's never too late to start the day over.