BEING A good politician relies partly on being a good communicator with polished PR abilities.
We always
want to be inspired by leaders. Barack Obama is such a speaker. Here are some of his wisest words for you.
1) "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make
progress."
2) "It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realizse your true
potential."
3) "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."
4) "If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe
in those at all."
5) "There is not a liberal America and a conservative America; there is the United States of America. There
is not a black America and a white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States
of America."
6) "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And
it will leave you unfulfilled."
7) "People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones that
with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life
and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better."
8) "I wish this country had fewer lawyers and more engineers."
9) "The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognise our failings and then rise together
to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history or
whether we act to shape those. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life's big winners and
losers or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get
ahead and reach their dreams."
10) "I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story that I owe a debt to all those
who came before me and that in no other country on earth is my story even possible."
Have certain beliefs and stick to those (remember his famous exile from Apple);
Inspire others with insane passion
Surprise your customers (give more than what's promised)
Take it till the very end (achieving the ultimate)
Remain hungry and foolish (from his famous Stanford lecture)
6 - 7
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham Lincoln
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Abraham Lincoln
All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow
in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln
Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to
repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it
necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will
be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln
Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and
shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a
most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the
world.
Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of
democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
As our case is new, we must think and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
Abraham Lincoln
Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Abraham Lincoln
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the
tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so
many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle
and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln