Happy Presidents Day! 15 Of President Barack Obama’s Best Quotes

We remember how great of a leader he was.

The Audacity of Change - “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.”(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Change - “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.”(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

The Audacity to Dream - “America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college — the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes — the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.”(Photo: Rob Griffith - Pool/Getty Images)

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The Audacity to Dream - “America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college — the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes — the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.”(Photo: Rob Griffith - Pool/Getty Images)

The Audacity of Faith - “My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.”(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Faith - “My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.”(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Audacity of Work - “Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change — we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change — inch by inch, day by day.”(Photo: Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Work - “Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change — we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change — inch by inch, day by day.”(Photo: Kevin Dietsch-Pool/Getty Images)

The Audacity of Potential - “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.”(Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Potential - “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.”(Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Compromise - “A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'”(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Compromise - “A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'”(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

The Audacity of a Secure and Thriving Future - “We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort.” (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of a Secure and Thriving Future - “We see the future not as something out of our control, but as something we can shape for the better through concerted and collective effort.” (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

The Audacity of Trust - “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.”(Photo: John Gress/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Trust - “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.”(Photo: John Gress/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Religious Freedom and Tolerance - "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."(Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Religious Freedom and Tolerance - "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."(Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)

The Audacity of Action - “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Action - “The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Equality - "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."(Photo: Jewl Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Equality - "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."(Photo: Jewl Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

The Audacity of Optimism  - “The cynics may be the loudest voices -- but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.” (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Optimism - “The cynics may be the loudest voices -- but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.” (Photo by Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The Audacity of a Day Off - “A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship — and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.”(Photo by Dennis Brack/Black Star/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of a Day Off - “A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship — and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.”(Photo by Dennis Brack/Black Star/Getty Images)

The Audacity of Tomorrow - “This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.”(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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The Audacity of Tomorrow - “This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.”(Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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