When they go low, we go high.
MICHELLE OBAMAYou’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
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My most important title is still mom-in-chief. My daughters are still the heart of my heart and the center of my world.
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This may be the fundamental problem with caring a lot about what others think: It can put you on the established path–the my-isn’t-that-impressive- path– and keep you there for a long time.
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I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.
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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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And there’s grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.
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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.
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I’ve smiled for photos with people who call my husband horrible names on national television, but still want a framed keepsake for their mantel.
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Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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