Barack Obama Quotes

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.

He who says it cannot be done should get out of the way of the one who is doing it.

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.

We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.

Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by those who are doing it.

We shall either find a way or make one.

The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward.

Just keep moving forward.

You never, ever give up the chance to change things, ever, no matter how hard it is. If you're elected, and have got the opportunity to make a difference, you take it.

When they say you can't, show them you can.