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Self Quotes by Barack Obama
- We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our…
- It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the…
- The ultimate goal is two states for two people: Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of…
- If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or…
- My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from…
- What makes us exceptional, what makes us America is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago. We…
- For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must…
- I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when…
- The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual…
- We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between…
- None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic,…
- I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s…
- That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy…
- [A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
- I made a mistake, Israel should keep all the land it won in battle for its own self defense
- History tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing.
More Self Quotes
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. — Arthur Ashe
- Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. — Isaac Asimov
- Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self. — Francis of Assisi
- That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it… — Mary Astell
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us… — David Attenborough
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up. — Dean Acheson
- A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower… — Marcus Aurelius
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster