Top 25 Inspiring Michelle Obama Quotes

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.

You can’t make DECISIONS based on fear and the possibility of what might happen.

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.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud…every day they remind me how BLESSED we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

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.

We learned about dignity and decency— that how hard you work matters more than how much you make…that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

Grief and resilience live together.

Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

This maybe 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.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt.

You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their dogs on the White House lawn… And as my daughters prepare to set out into the world, I want a leader who is worthy of that truth, a leader who is worthy of my girls’ promise and all our kids’ promise, a leader who will be guided every day by the love and hope and impossibly big dreams that we all have for our children.

Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.

When they go low, we go high.

I began to understand that his version of hope reached far beyond mine: It was one thing to get yourself out of a stick place, I realized. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck.

Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.

Hearing them, I realized that they weren't all at smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.

Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.

The lesson being that in life you control what you can.