I have had to learn that my voice has value. And if I don’t use it, what’s the point of being in the room?
MICHELLE OBAMAInspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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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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We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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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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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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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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Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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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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