Barack Obama Quotes About Expectations

• Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Mistake, Men

• All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Children, Powerful

  Speech at the 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America' Memorial, delivered 12 January 2011, McKale Memorial Center, University of Arizona, Tucson

• You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You may want to prove that you're worthy of high expectations. But I do think that there is a youthful ambition that very much has to do with making your mark in the world. And I think that cuts across the experiences of a lot of people who end up achieving something significant in their field.

  Barack Obama

  Ambition, Kids, Cutting

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

• I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp down expectations. If you listen to my stump speeches, if you listen to what I said at Grant Park, I kept on saying, "Look, this is not just about me, this is not going to happen in one year, or one term, or even one presidency." And we tried to layer into everything we were saying a sense of hope, but also realism.

  Barack Obama

  Years, People, Expectations

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

• My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Reality, Expectations

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Should Have, Years

  Joint Press Meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, delivered 18 May 2009

• I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, "Oh, we're gonna eliminate racism like that. After Obama's elected how could there be any racism?".

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Racism, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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