He is an American politician and served as president of the United States of America from 2009 to 2017. He was the first American president of African American descent.

Barack Obama

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.

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

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.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

He was a military man, politician, dictator, considered one of the most important and influential figures. He has triggered the most important Roman civil war.

Julius Caesar

Experience is the teacher of all things.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

The die is cast.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

During a few days' halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

I love the name of honor more than I fear death.

He was an ancient Macedonian military man, king of Macedonia. He is known for being one of history's most celebrated conquerors and strategists.

Alexander The Great

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

I do not pilfer victory.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

His father is governor of Media, and though he has the greatest command given him of all the rest of my generals, he still covetously desires more, and my being without issue spurs him on to this wicked design. But Philotas takes wrong measures.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius' wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.

There is nothing immpossible to him who will try.

He was a British politician, military man, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II. His figure was significant to history.

Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Never, never, never give up.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

History is written by the victors.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

He was a French politician, general, founder of the First French Empire, and a key player in the Napoleonic Age. He is considered one of the strongest generals of all time.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

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