Barack Obama Quotes

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

The Past, The Present, For the Future

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

Through the ages one increasing purpose runs.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.

With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

Evolution is the only thing that exists through time. That is true for computers, or people, or a business. We tend to see things in a static way, and so you see what is. Even in looking at ourselves, what we really are is essentially vessels for our DNA that keeps evolving through time. So seeing that and embracing that reality, and thinking of everything as kind of this perpetual motion machine in which you embrace reality - you don't wish it was different. You realize that it's your puzzle to interact with. You interact with it well, you evolve yourself.

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

Nobody stays in the world that you've seen them in before.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

I want to make change, but I've already made change. I will continue to make change. I'm not just running on a promise of change.

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.