Barack Obama Quotes

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

Hope puts up with modest gains, realizing that the longest journey starts with one step.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead.

We knew when we started we wouldn't be accepted overnight, that it was going to be a long haul.

Any sort of major change we want to make in our life is hard. Change is not easy and true change takes time and takes thousands, millions probably, of failures along that path and that's the interesting thing.

The hardest thing for me is to be patient and realize that it's not all going to happen right now. I just have to keep digging away, digging away. Just keep working on my game.

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.

It's hard to remain patient when it seems so debilitating to do so. The balance comes with staying ambitious while being patient.

A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough.

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Persistence is the mother of personal change

Have patience. Everything is difficult before it is easy.

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

Patience is, in and of itself, a great challenge and it often holds the key to breaking through a seeming impasse.

But in the end, mastery involves working and working and showing little improvement, perhaps with a few moments of flow pulling you along, then making a little progress, and then working and working on that new, slightly higher plateau again. It's grueling, to be sure. But that's not the problem; that's the solution.

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.