42 Michelle Obama Quotes
Born: January 17, 1964
Be encouraged by these Michelle Obama quotes. She has inspired millions worldwide by her honesty and her dedication to young women’s rights. Michelle Obama is an American lawyer, author, and mother. She served as the First Lady of the USA from 2009 to 2017, making her the first African-American First Lady. One thing that must be said, becoming famous did not change Michelle she stayed tue to her values and her beliefs.
- Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. Michelle Obama
Success - Through my education, I didn’t just develop skills, I didn’t just develop the ability to learn but I developed confidence. Michelle Obama
Confidence - You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen. Michelle Obama
Decision - My father, Fraser, taught me to work hard, laugh often, and keep my word. Michelle Obama, Becoming
Work - Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered. Michelle Obama
Focus - Find people who will make you better. Michelle Obama
Quote of The Day - Real men treat the janitor with the same respect as the CEO. Michelle Obama
Respect - Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.Michelle Obama, Becoming
Believe In Yourself - There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices and persistence. Michelle Obama
Achievement - Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives. Michelle Obama
Make A Difference - Every time you fail and get back up. You practice perseverance, which is the key to life. Your strength comes in your ability to recover. Michelle Obama
Recovery - To me, there was magic in the learning. I got a buzzy sort of satisfaction from it.Michelle Obama, Becoming
Learning - Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. Michelle Obama
Inspirational - When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am. Michelle Obama
Negativity Quotes - We believe that you speak what’s on your mind. Your word is your bond. You treat people with respect and dignity. Michelle Obama, Speeches on Life, Love, and American Values
Believe - Every day, you have the power to choose. Michelle Obama
New Day - You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. Michelle Obama
Courage - Maybe you feel like your destiny was written the day you were born and you ought to just rein in your hopes and scale back your dreams. But if any of you are thinking that way, I’m here to tell you: Stop it. Michelle Obama
Destiny - You can’t just sit around. Don’t expect anybody to come and hand you anything. It doesn’t work that way.Michelle Obama
Motivational - If you are committed to doing what it takes, anything is possible. It’s up to you.Michelle Obama
Commitment - You’ve got to be able to acknowledge and understand the past and move on from it. You have to understand it, and I think a lot of us just don’t have an opportunity to understand it – but it’s there.Michelle Obama
Moving Forward - But it takes taking the time to know who you are to be able to deal with the onslaught of negative messages that you’re bound to get. �So for me, I came into this with a pretty clear sense of myself. �And some of that comes with age. �Some of that comes with experience.Michelle Obama
Being Yourself - One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up.Michelle Obama
Time - You’ve got to just sort of surround yourself with people who uplift you, who hold you up.Michelle Obama
Positive - But the other thing that I have found, particularly in this job, that it’s — people won’t remember what other people say about you, but they will remember what you do.Michelle Obama
Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result.Michelle Obama
Feeling - You need to have people in your lives that you’re connecting with, that you’re helping. �I mean, there is nothing that makes me feel better than knowing that I helped to change somebody’s lifeMichelle Obama
Life Changing - Progress isn’t made through fear. … Fear is the coward’s way of leadership.Michelle Obama
Progress - Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own. Michelle Obama
Meaningful - I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values � and follow my own moral compass � then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own. Michelle Obama
Strong Women Quotes - Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Michelle Obama
Resilience - And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. Michelle Obama
Life - Empower yourselves with a good education. Michelle Obama
Knowledge - One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. Michelle Obama
Life Lessons - Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar. Michelle Obama
Comfort Zone - Choose people who lift you up. Michelle Obama
Choices - Walk away from friendships that make you feel small and insecure, and seek out people who inspire you and support you. Michelle Obama
Friendship - You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages. Michelle Obama
Overcoming - Michelle Obama asks of us to be better citizens and to serve the world as we serve ourselves.Stacie Vander Pol, Michelle Obama: Speeches on Life, Love, and American Values
Helping Others - Despite her successes, she still tells anyone who asks that her most important job is mother to the presidential couple’s two children.Lisa Rogak, Michelle Obama in her Own Words
Mother - She (Michelle Obama) is honest, often brutally so, full of integrity, loving, kind, and an individual who cares deeply about her fellow human beings. She also has a great sense of humor.Alma Halbert Bond, Michelle Obama
Honesty - Overall, Michelle Obama’s life and legacy helped demonstrate that women can be successful through hard work and commitment, and that no dream is beyond the possible.Alice Cruz, Michelle Obama: A Biography
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