Barack Obama Quotes

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle.

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

Life is challenging. I wish I could tell you that you’ll always be on top of the mountain, but the reality is that there are days when nothing will go right, when not only will you not be on top, you may not even be able to figure out which way is up. Do yourself a favor, and don’t make it any harder than it has to be. In those moments, be careful how you speak to yourself; be careful how you think of yourself; be careful how you conduct yourself; be careful how you develop yourself.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

The only one who can beat me is me.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Life has brought me work to do on myself these past two years.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Emotional life is - alongside work - one of the great challenges of existence and is a theme that I keep returning to.

I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared

I was in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World.

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.