When they go low, we go high.
Democratic National Convention speech (2016)
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Michelle Obama quotes
b. 1964 ยท Presidents and world leaders
Former First Lady, lawyer and bestselling author of Becoming.
7 quotes, 7 traced to where Obama said or wrote them.
How hard you work matters more than how much you make.
Democratic National Convention speech (2012)
I'm asking you to believe in yourselves. I'm asking you to stop settling for the world as it is, and to help us make the world as it should be.
A Challenge to Overcome speech (2007)
The biggest, most dramatic change happens incrementally, little by little, through compromises and adjustments over years and decades.
Oberlin College commencement speech (2015)
Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you. Let them make you even hungrier to succeed.
Commencement speech at Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep (2015)
Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story, because you do.
Final remarks as First Lady (2017)
The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.
Democratic National Convention speech (2008)