Barack Obama Quotes

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Nobody ever wants to have change, that's for sure. But when it's good, it's really good.

Every good thing that has happened in your life happened because something changed.

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

It is always possible to improve.

The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.

A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

The march of progress must continue.

We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.

If anything's progressive, then we make progress.

Problems are the price you pay for progress.

There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.

Malawians must look forward toward a better future.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.