Audacity Of Hope Quotes:

Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.

- Barack Obama

source: 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

topic: Faith, Audacity, Faces, Audacity Of Hope, Greatest Gifts

Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!

- Barack Obama

source: 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

topic: Hope, Cancer, Audacity, Audacity Of Hope

From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."

- Barack Obama

topic: Sex, Book, Reading, Christian Hope, Visitation

In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

- Barack Obama

topic: Country, War, Mean, Internment, Muslim Brotherhood

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

- Barack Obama

source: June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Presidential

Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.

- Barack Obama

topic: People, Abortion, Principles, Muslim Faith, Christian Faith

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

- Barack Obama

source: "Barack Obama's farewell speech: this is how a leader signs off" by Ruchira Karnik, www.hindustantimes.com. January 15, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Presidential, Inspiring Presidential

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

- Barack Obama

topic: Book, Greek, Gita, Audacity Of Hope, Norse

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.220, Broadway Books

topic: Father, Son, Men, Dreams From My Father, Dubois

On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.

- Barack Obama

topic: Mother, New Year, Easter, Hawaiians, Audacity Of Hope

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

- Barack Obama

topic: Mean, Doubt, Have Faith, Forward In Life, Inspirational Divorce

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

- Barack Obama

topic: Father, Mistake, Men, Audacity Of Hope

To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

- Jürgen Moltmann

topic: Country, Needs, Audacity, Audacity Of Hope

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.

- Barack Obama

source: "The Audacity of Hope". Book by Barack Obama, www.npr.org. October 17, 2006.

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Moving, Personal Leadership, Audacity Of Hope

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

- June Jordan

topic: Waiting, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Change, Inspirational Presidential, Time And Change

we are the ones we have been waiting for

- Alice Walker

source: Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

topic: Confidence, Waiting, African American, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Presidential

Barack Obama said yesterday that the economy was 'going to get worse before it gets better.' See, that's when you know the campaign is really over. Remember before the election? 'The audacity of hope!' 'Yes, we can!' 'A change we can believe in!' Now it's, 'We're all screwed.'

- Jay Leno

topic: Believe, Yes We Can, Yesterday, It Gets Better, Audacity Of Hope

In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.theatlantic.com

topic: Black, Way, Audacity, Touchstones, Audacity Of Hope