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Success Quotes by Barack Obama

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Barack Obama points out that when women thrive, the whole country benefits. He urges us to stop only consuming and start creating things that matter. He also says real success comes from personal effort teamed with working together, and that taking a chance to run for office can be worth it.

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Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.

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Don't just consume things, create things

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We are not entitled to success we have to earn it

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When times change, so must we.

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I believe when women succeed America succeeds!

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I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis.

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I don't know what the word is in Austrian.

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

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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

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The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women

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

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If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

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When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

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

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This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making.

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This generations success is only possible because past generations felt a responsibility to each other & to their countrys future.

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I honor, we honor the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine.…

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Look at Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, her personal story helps to tell a story of incredible achievement that the German people have embarked…

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I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in…

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No matter how much you've done, or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always…

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Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular…

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I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents…

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The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition.…

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“The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our…

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I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions…

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There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it…

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America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I…

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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even…

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The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal…

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I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged…

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In recent years, we've become enamored with our own past success. Lulled into complacency by the glitter of our own achievements. We've…

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It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting…

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When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's…

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That's what building a body of work is all about. It's about the daily labor, the many individual acts, the choices large…

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“Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success…

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Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores…

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“A Disavowal of the pursuit of Middleclassness', the heading read. While it is permissible to chase ‘middleincomeness’ with all our might, the…

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On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been.

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All of these different strands in me - the black, the white, the African - all of that has contributed directly to…

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I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements,…

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