Skip to content

Hope Quotes by Barack Obama

68 Hope quotes by Barack Obama

All Hope quotes Barack Obama’s page

Hope — hope in the face of difficulty and uncertainty — is called the audacity of hope. The speaker warns against false promises while urging people to see opportunity, even in places like Greece. Encouraging entrepreneurship for young people is presented as a way to keep hope alive.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

America will rise again. And hope will rise again.

Image

Love and hope can conquer hate

Image

We are a people of improbable hope.

Image

I do think that I am generally optimistic.

Image

The absence of hope can rot a society from within.

Image

While we breathe, we will hope.

Image

My hope is Donald Trump makes things better. And if he does, we'll all benefit from it.

Image

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

Image

My hope is that more and more investors around the world see an opportunity to do business in Greece.

Image

If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

Image

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Image

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

Image

“The title of Reverend Wright’s sermon that morning was “The Audacity of Hope.”

Image

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Image

My hope would be that, as we're moving through the world right now, we're able to get that psychological or emotional peace…

Image

My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully…

Image

We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power…

Image

“We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has…

Image

“I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that…

Image

Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that…

Image

I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the…

Image

My hope is that's something [Donald Trump] is thinking about, because not only is the president of the United States somebody that…

Image

Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more…

Image

My hope is that the president-elect [Donald Trump] coming in takes a similarly constructive approach, finding areas where we can cooperate with…

Image

My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some…

Image

From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for…

Image

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by…

Image

“That was the best of the American spirit, I thought--having the audacity to believe despite all the evidence to the contrary that…

Image

The United States was founded on the idea that all people are endowed with inalienable rights, and that principle has allowed us…

Image

What I want to communicate is the fact that in all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand…

Image

We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can…

Image

“I've never been more hopeful about our future. I have never been more hopeful about America. And I ask you to sustain…

Image

...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our…

Image

And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the…

Image

Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice…

Image

“we have been told we cannot do this by a coarse of sentence: it will only grow louder and more dissident. we…

Image

America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so…

Image

Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can.…

Image

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

Image

Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.

Image

Other authors on Hope

More by Barack Obama

So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of…

The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.

As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very…

Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit.

What we've said to the girls is: 'If you guys ever decide that you're going to get a tattoo, then mommy and me will…

Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America.…

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.

That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we…

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an…

So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when…

I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in…

We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was.

It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy.

Believe it or not, entertainment is part of our American diplomacy, it is part of what makes us exceptional, part of what makes us…