Barack Obama Quotes About Changing The World

• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

• One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Cities, Voice, World

  "Barack Obama electrifies crowd with anecdote on how he got his election slogan 'Fired up, ready to go'" by Maya Oppenheim, www.independent.co.uk. November 8, 2016.

• Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Character, Eye, Shoes

  Obama Holds a Town Hall in Istanbul, www.washingtonpost.com. April 7, 2009.

• Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Believe, Hard Work

  "Obama To Young Scientists: ‘Keep Asking Why’" by Sara Bondioli, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2015.

• On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Dream, World

  Barack Obama's Speech on International Day of the Girl, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 10, 2013.

• I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Courage, Purpose, World

  "Are We Beacons of Democracy Only When it’s Easy?" by James Boyce, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2009.

• Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Character, Empathy, Quality

• Your voice can change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Successful, Voice

  "Obama's healthcare reform speech gets union crowd fired up" by Sam Youngman, thehill.com. September 7, 2009.

• You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want". It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

  Barack Obama

  Yes We Can, World, Want

• What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Lakes, People

  President Barack Obama's remarks on the Supreme Court Decision on Marriage Equality at the White House Rose Garden, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 26, 2015.

• Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  "Obama extols Jobs's vision" by Jennifer Epstein and Amie Parnes, www.politico.com. October 5, 2011.

• Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Thinking, Passing On

  "Tributes to Steve Jobs", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

• What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the world, are seeing extraordinarily rapid change. The world is shrinking, the economies have become much more integrated and demographics are shifting.

  Barack Obama

  People, Shrinking, World

  Source: time.com

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