Barack Obama Quotes

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.

Many people remember that spirit that President Kennedy summoned forth. Many people look to me as somebody who embodies that sense of possibility.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope.

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.

We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.

Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

So moderates of the world unite! We have nothing to lose but our pessimism. Either we make the future bury the past, or the bad guys will ensure that the past buries the future.

Say not the struggle naught availeth, The labour and the wounds are vain, The enemy faints not, nor faileth, And as things have been, things remain ... For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And no by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light, In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But, westward, look, the land is bright.

History was not written by men who predicted failure…