Barack Obama Quotes

The strength of our unity is directly proportional to our conviction that we can win.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

Perseverance and perspective until victory.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

I'm proud of my triumphs. I've dreamed of being world champion, I've had some difficult times and they've made me value the good times.

I climbed Mount Everest. I don't quit.

I've finally gotten to a place where I can say, 'You know what? You didn't think I could do it, people.' But I did it.

Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.

I take my hat off to my friend, Mark Wahlberg, because I know that it took him a long time to make 'The Fighter', and he overcame a lot of obstacles to do it, and now the film is an unqualified success.

We as a people, as a state, and as a community, have too much promise, too much potential, and too much at stake to go any other way than forward. We are too strong in our hearts, too innovative in our minds, and too firm in our beliefs to retreat from our goals.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

We are all winners here.

I've struggled a lot for what I have today.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.

Success is survival.

All great careers are carved out by the sword.

History was not written by men who predicted failure…