Barack Obama Quotes

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

A little bit of agitation gives motivation to the soul, and what really makes the species prosper is not peace so much as freedom.

There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?

The aspiration to save the world is a morbid phenomenon of today's youth.

If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread.

Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.

The world can be a lot bet­ter than we set­tle for. All you have to do is ask.

I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.

I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.

People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.

You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."

Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm the power of our humanity by giving architecture and substance to the dreams we have for our nation, so that the promised land of social and economic justice that is within our dreams will soon be within our sight.

Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.