The biggest, most dramatic change happens incrementally, little by little, through compromises and adjustments over years and decades.
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Michelle ObamaOberlin College commencement speech (2015)
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)
- 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)
- 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 change
- Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.Peter Drucker
- The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different.Peter Drucker
- There's just one thing that's permanent in this world, and that's change.Henry Ford
- We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.Bill Gates
- Be stubborn on your vision but flexible on the details.Jeff Bezos
- As long as you're green you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.Ray Kroc
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