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.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe lesson being that in life you control what you can.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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[Y]ou may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.
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You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.
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Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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For me, marriage was more like a full-on merger, a reconfiguring of two lives into one, with the well-being of a family taking precedence over any one agenda or goal.
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It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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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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You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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The choice, as he saw it, was this: You give up or you work for change. What’s better for us? Barack called to the people gathered in the room. Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
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The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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