Barack Obama Quotes

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

That attitude of arrogance, that attitude of "It's all about me. It's all about what I can get out of life now" - well, I'm personally driven by wanting to get out of my life the best I can achieve as a gift for those who come after me.

The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made people rise to real ambition, real gravity was the sense of posterity, for example - a word that I can remember hearing quite often when I was a child and I never hear anymore. People actually wanted to make the world good for people in generations that they would never see. It makes people think in very large terms to try to liberate women, for example, or to try to eliminate slavery.

My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could.'

We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

One must care about a world one will not see.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

I need something bigger than myself. And the only thing that can be would be a child. Someone who would help me live even more selflessly.

My girls and I regularly go through their rooms to find clothes and toys to donate to charities. I firmly believe that children who have been given so much need to experience the joy that comes from giving.

Malawians must look forward toward a better future.

Having kids makes you think about the world differently.

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

Whatever pain we go through now, our suffering will provide for the future of the next generations.

Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?

The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself... One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.

I would love to have a beautiful family one day, to win Slams. I'd love my kids to see me play before I retire.

My dream is to have a family, hopefully while still working.

I am not here forever, so I wanted to do the best for the coming generation.

Before I leave this earth, I'm going to help people have a better future.

We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.

As fathers, we know what a force for life children can be. They represent all of our futures.

There's something about the American spirit -– inherent in the American spirit -- we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward.... We are going to leave something better for our children –- not just here in the United States, but all around the world.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.