Barack Obama Quotes

We are the change we're waiting for.

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.

I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

If you will change everything will change for you. Don’t wait for things to change. Change doesn’t start out there, change starts within....All change starts with you.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

I really believe in the power of the individual to make change, and our family is a real collection of individuals.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Allah does not change social conditions until people change their attitude.

The world is full of people who are waiting for someone to come along and motivate them to be the kind of people they wish they could be. The problem is that no one is coming to the rescue.

Change happens at the level of the individual

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

If you take the responsibility for your life, you can start changing it.

You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

I cannot change you. I cannot change other people. So I have decided to put all of my energy where I have the most leverage , where I know I can make a difference. Instead of being upset that this world is not populated the way I want it to be populated, I have decided to become the citizen that I want the world to be populated with. That's how I create the vision.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

Improvement begins with I.

If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life different.

I don't believe I am influencing anybody but myself.