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.
MO
Michelle ObamaA Challenge to Overcome speech (2007)
About Michelle Obama
Former First Lady, lawyer and bestselling author of Becoming. (b. 1964)
More from Michelle Obama
- When they go low, we go high.Democratic National Convention speech (2016)
- How hard you work matters more than how much you make.Democratic National Convention speech (2012)
- 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)
More quotes on motivation
- If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.Vince Lombardi
- Make each day your masterpiece.John Wooden
- If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.Lou Holtz
- Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.Lou Holtz
- There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.Bruce Lee
- I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece.Tony Robbins
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