Barack Obama

Cynicism is a choice, and hope is a better choice.

Barack Obama

I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.

Barack Obama

It’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential.

Barack Obama

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.

Barack Obama

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.

Barack Obama

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

Barack Obama

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. it’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

Barack Obama

We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge.

Barack Obama

Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.

Barack Obama

Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.

Barack Obama