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)
• 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)

More quotes on success

• Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.Les Brown
• Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.Earl Nightingale
• People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.Norman Vincent Peale
• Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success.Og Mandino
• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.Jack Canfield
• Healthy striving is about striving for internal goals, and wanting to be our best selves. Perfectionism is not motivated internally. Perfectionism is about what people will think.Brené Brown

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