About Michelle Obama

Former First Lady, lawyer and bestselling author of Becoming. (b. 1964)

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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)
• 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)
• 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 failure and resilience

• We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.Theodore Roosevelt
• It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.Franklin D. Roosevelt
• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.Eleanor Roosevelt
• When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.Eleanor Roosevelt
• What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.Dwight D. Eisenhower
• America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.Harry S. Truman

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