Barack Obama Quotes About Focus

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  Barack Obama

  Success, Encouragement, Money

  Commencement Address at Knox College, delivered 4 June 2005, Galesburg, Illinois

• All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Focus, Effort

  A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Ambition, Focus

  Barack Obama's commencement speech at Northwestern University, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

• I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Fighting

  Barack Obama's remarks at GOP House Issues Conference in Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 29, 2010.

• A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy.

  Barack Obama

  Funny Graduation, Focus, Lazy

  "The Best Advice From Obama’s Commencement Speeches As President" by Tyler Kingkade, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2016.

• I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Unique, America

  Barack Obama's Remarks in Address to the Nation on Libya, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 28, 2011.

• I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.

  Barack Obama

  Opportunity, Thinking, Race

  "After the Great Recession". Interview with David Leonhardt, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 2009.

• I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then I think that we move the country forward and when we are divided and our politics is focused on dividing, then I think we're less successful, not just from the perspective of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but from the perspective of the nation as a whole.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Party, Moving

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• There's no doubt that on the issue of abortion, oftentimes it's very difficult to split the difference, although we can agree on the notion that none of us are pro-abortion and all of us would like to see a reduction in unwanted pregnancies, for example, and we could focus on those issues.

  Barack Obama

  Pregnancy, Differences, Issues

  Source: www.msnbc.com

• Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Government, Focus

  "Obama ventures into swamp, and enemy political territory, to deliver Earth Day message". www.foxnews.com. April 22, 2015.

• Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and focus and adherence to the values that we care about will result in a better future for our children and our grandchildren.

  Barack Obama

  Determination, Children, War

  Source: time.com

• Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, School

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

• Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

• Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time.

  Barack Obama

  Focus, Limits, Investigation

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Thinking, Focus

  Source: abcnews.go.com

• We have to focus on how do we ensure the economy works for everybody, and not just a few.

  Barack Obama

  Focus, Economy

  Barack Obama's Remarks with President Pena Nieto of Mexico in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 22, 2016.

• There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing them sufficient protection, that they can be left behind in this process. And that's what we have to focus on.

  Barack Obama

  Focus, Protection, Globalization

  Source: time.com

• There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified.

  Barack Obama

  Race, Focus, Risk

  Source: www.foxnews.com

• My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.

  Barack Obama

  People, Focus, Pakistan

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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