Michelle Obama Quotes

“At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.”

“Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?”

“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”

“For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.”

“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”

“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”

“The lesson being that in life you control what you can.”