Barack Obama Quotes

I'm gonna be the best version of me. If there's something I don't know, I'm not afraid to ask.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

If you don't make errors, how can you be conscious?

Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I cherish all of the times I've fallen on my face and made mistakes, because those experiences have made me who I am.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.