Wit and Wisdom of Barack Obama: A Book of Quotations

Great leaders and visionaries say things from their life experience which will be picked up by their followers and they will publicize it to the world.

So it is not sold to you, rather it is passed from generation to generation, like a rare gem. "Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way.

The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't.

It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."- Barack ObamaPresident Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States, and the first African American to serve as U.S. president. First elected to the presidency in 2008, he won a second term in 2012.