Barack Obama Quotes About Giving Up

• When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Tough

  Remarks by the President on the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 15, 2014.

• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Ideas, Voice

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

• Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Dark, Years

  Barack Obama's remarks at Young African Leaders Initiative Town Hall in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 29, 2013.

• If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Gay, Differences

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

• They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Giving Up, Home

  Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

• Even as we do all that's necessary to ensure Israel's security, even as we are clear-eyed about the difficult challenges before us, and even as we pledge to stand by Israel through whatever tough days lie ahead, I hope we do not give up on that vision of peace. For if history teaches us anything, if the story of Israel teaches us anything, it is that with courage and resolve, progress is possible. Peace is possible.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Lying, Israel

  Remarks by the President at the AIPAC Policy Conference at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 22, 2011.

• Never give up on your dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Dream, Giving Up

  Twitter post from Sep 2, 2013

• Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit.

  Barack Obama

  Giving Up, Class, Doe

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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