Top 20 Powerful and Inspiring Quotes from U.S. President Barack Obama

If you stay on the right path and are always ready to move forward, sooner or later, success will be yours.

I realized that life means little unless you are willing to contribute your part in leaving behind a better world for our children – all our children. Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It is the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

No matter where you come from, what you look like, or who you love, if you work hard and responsibly, you will reap success.

Reading is essential. If you know how to read, the entire world will unfold before you.

If you walk the right path and are always ready to keep moving forward, sooner or later, success will be yours.

A single voice can change a room, and if a voice can change a room, it can change a city. If it can change a city, it can change a state. If it can change a state, it can change a country. And if it can change a country, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

Spending your whole life focused on earning money reveals a lack of ambition. You are asking too little of yourself, and that will leave you unfulfilled.

Each of you excels in something. Each of you has something to offer the world. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. This is the opportunity that education can provide.

Leaving a mark on this world is not easy. If it were, anyone could do it. But it’s not easy. It requires patience, responsibility, and it comes with many failures along the way. The real challenge is not whether you can avoid these failures, because you won’t. The challenge lies in whether you allow them to harden you or make you so embarrassed that you stop taking action, or whether you learn from them and persist in moving forward.

You cannot let failure define you. You must allow failure to teach you.

What defines the worth of a man is not only his ability to father children but his ability to raise them.

We may not be able to stop evil from spreading across the world, but how we treat each other is entirely up to us.

Mockery is a form of failure of the mind.

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

The future rewards those who move forward. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I will move forward.

If you start, there’s a chance of failure, but if you don’t start, you’ve already failed.

Change won’t come if we wait for someone else or wait for the right moment. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change we seek.

I demand your trust. Not only in my ability to bring real change to Washington, but I ask you to have trust in yourselves.

The best way to avoid feeling hopeless is to stand up and do something. Don’t wait for something good to happen to you. If you go out and make something good happen, you’ll fill the world with hope, and yourself with hope as well.

As long as we breathe, it means we still have hope.