Barack Obama Quotes

Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas - a more attractive and compelling vision.

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• I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Help
  • Loved

• It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Struggle

• Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Expectation

• I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Me
  • Never
  • Guess

• The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Live
  • Soul

• The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Friends

• I don't believe in miracles.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Believe
  • Miracles

• There were centuries when civilization had no theater.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Civilization
  • Theater
  • Were

• I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Important
  • Game
  • Games

• When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

  

  Kaskade
  • Work
  • Music
  • Writing

• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Remember
  • You
  • Forget

• Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Humanity
  • Silver

• Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.

  

  Iman
  • English
  • Language
  • Better

• I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • People
  • Think
  • Politics

• 'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • World
  • Way
  • Moment

• Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Want
  • Positive
  • Inspire

• I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!

  

  Cara Black
  • Motorcycle
  • Once
  • Morocco

• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  

  Carl Rogers
  • Art
  • Judge
  • Creative

• For me the challenge isn't to be different but to be consistent.

  

  Joan Jett
  • Different
  • Challenge

• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Religious
  • Vision

• All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.

  

  C. Terry Warner
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Truth

• There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Kids
  • Girl
  • Daughter

• Ideologies are not defeated with guns, they’re defeated by better ideas - a more attractive and compelling vision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Vision