13 OF OUR FAVOURITE MICHELLE OBAMA QUOTES
"Don't ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility. Make decisions based on what should happen, not what shouldn't."-Campaigning in Phoenix in 2011
"We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our ‘to-do’ list."
"We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our ‘to-do’ list."
"When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous." -visiting Africa in 2013
"When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed."-Convention Speech 2012
“Am I good enough? Yes I am.”- An extract from her book, 'Becoming.'
"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."
"You don't have to be somebody different to be important. You're important in your own right."
"Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own," she wrote in Becoming.
"It was one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, I realised. It was another thing entirely to try and get the place itself unstuck," she wrote in Becoming.
"Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own," Mrs. Obama said during the Oregon State University commencement address in 2012.