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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.

Michelle Obama

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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Act Explanation Inspirational
It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Hard Time Pain Success
You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Character Goodness Success Yourself
His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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Book Himself Money
Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this, I’d never forgive him.
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Family Forgiveness Himself Myself Risk Safety
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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Believe Direction Ideal Lost Myself Need Ourselves Reality True
It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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Direction Live Plant Possible Success
You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.
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Decision Fear Possible Yourself
Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Fear Hide Mental People
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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Friendship Goodness Hurt Life Marriage People Relationship Right Trust
When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
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Achievement Myself Success Worth
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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Friendship Kindness Woman
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
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Doubt Failure Fear Feeling Result Vulnerable
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Instagram Captions Life Story Yourself
The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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Believe Goal Live People Success
At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.
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Hope Improvement Mindset Myself
failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Failure Feeling Result
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
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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Energy Goal Grow Up Investment Lesson Negative Oneself True
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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Friendship Journey Live
It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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Death Hurt Live Myself
There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others.
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Power Story Voice Willing Yourself
I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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Country Hate Language Myself Reflection Spirit True Understand Word
Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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Age Children Enough Investment Myself Survive Young

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