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  • The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  • Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

  • Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.

  • If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

    Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”
  • I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

  • Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.

    Art   Philosophy   Issues  
    Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.44, Simon and Schuster
  • On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

    "Obama: 'Fear' drives voters" by Carol E.Lee, www.politico.com. October 16, 2010.
  • We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

  • Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

  • Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

    Attributed in "The 101 Greatest Business Principles of All Time" by Leslie Pockell, November 23, 2004.
  • We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

    Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

    "Barack Obama Answers Your Questions About Gay Marriage, Paying For College, More". www.mtv.com. November 01, 2008.
  • The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

    Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014
  • Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead.

    Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic.

    "The Audacity of Hope". Book by Barack Obama, www.npr.org. October 17, 2006.
  • It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

    Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.
  • Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

    Barack Obama's Remarks at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 24, 2011.
  • Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal leadership of the upper managers.

  • If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  • When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the day, when we choose not to make our voices and opinions heard, that's when democracy breaks down. That's when power is abused. That's when the most extreme voices in our society fill the void that we leave. That's when powerful interests and their lobbyists are most able to buy access and influence in the corridors of power - because none of us are there to speak up and stop them.

    Powerful   Voice   Issues  
    "Obama Michigan Graduation Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.
  • With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.

    "Obama Tells Congressional Black Caucus To 'Stop Grumbling'" by Zeke Miller, www.businessinsider.com. September 25, 2011.
  • We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

  • People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

    John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.108, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

    "Obama’s Speech on Reducing the Budget", www.nytimes.com. April 13, 2011.
  • Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

  • Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

    "Executive's Portfolio of Model Speeches for All Occasions". Book by Dianna Daniels Booher, 1991.
  • The building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.

    Peter Drucker (2012). “Management”, p.371, Routledge
  • In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy.

    Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014
  • The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

  • America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

    A New Beginning: Speech at Cairo University, delivered 4 June 2009, Cairo, Egypt
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