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.
MICHELLE OBAMAThis 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.
More Michelle Obama Quotes
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Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.
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He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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The lesson being that in life you control what you can.
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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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Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.
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No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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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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I hate diversity workshops. Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.
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The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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But as I’ve said, failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. And for me, it felt like that’s exactly what she was planting—a suggestion of failure long before I’d even tried to succeed.
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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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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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Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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