When they go low, we go high.
MICHELLE OBAMAThe 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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The more popular you became, the more haters you acquired.
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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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If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child – What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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America, our moment is now, Barack said. Our moment is now.
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failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Since stepping reluctantly into public life, I’ve been held up as the most powerful woman in the world and taken down as an angry black woman. I’ve wanted to ask my detractors which part of that phrase matters to them the most—is it angry or black or woman ?
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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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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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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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Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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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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