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As the first African American President of the United States, Barack Obama is known for not only bringing some much needed change to a government that was struggling through some hard times, but also for his ability to bring positive motivation through his speeches.

Check out our favorite Barack Obama quotes!

‘A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’

‘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.

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.’

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.’

‘We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.’

‘For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.’

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‘We are the change we have been waiting for.’

‘Yes we can!’
‘We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.’

‘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.’