Michelle Obama Quotes • The woman who has inspired millions 

She is a legendary leader, mother of two amazing independent young women, and author of #1 global bestsellers, “Becoming” and “The Light We Carry”.

Capturing millions of hearts, this woman needs no introduction. She has been inspiration for millions of women all over the world. Today we are going to share some of her Motivational Quotes that will help us find hope at uncertain times.

MOTIVATIONAL AND INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES • MICHELLE OBAMA QUOTES 

“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.”

-Michelle Obama

“The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.”

-Michelle Obama 

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

-Michelle Obama 

“Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It’s something to own.”

-Michelle Obama 

“Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”

-Michelle Obama 

“Each of us carries a bit of inner brightness, something entirely unique and individual, a flame that’s worth protecting.”

-Michelle Obama 

“We become bolder in brightness.”

-Michelle Obama 

“How you view yourself becomes everything. It’s your foundation, the  starting point for changing the world around you.”

-Michelle Obama 

“You fall, you get up, you carry on.”

-Michelle Obama 

“That’s what tools are for. They help keep us upright and balanced, better able to coexist with uncertainty. They help us deal with flux, to manage when life feels out of control. And they help us continue onward, even while in discomfort, even as we live with our strands exposed.”

-Michelle Obama 

“Your different-ness will often proceed you into a room; people see it before they see you.”

-Michelle Obama 

“When you are different, you can feel as if you are operating with a different map, a different set of navigational challenges than those around you. Sometimes, you feel like you have no map at all.”

-Michelle Obama 

“When we are able to recognize our own light, we become empowered to use it.”

-Michelle Obama 

“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.”

-Michelle Obama 

“There’s a lot I still don’t know about America, about life, about what the future might bring. But I do know myself. My father, Fraser, taught me to work hard, laugh often, and keep my word. My mother, Marian, showed me how to think for myself and to use my voice. 

Together, in our cramped apartment on the South Side of Chicago, they helped me see the value in our story, in my story, in the larger story of our country. Even when it’s not pretty or perfect. Even when it’s more real than you want it to be. Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.”

-Michelle Obama 

“I’m an ordinary person who found herself on an extraordinary journey. ”

-Michelle Obama

“For every door that’s been opened to me, I’ve tried to open my door to others. And here is what I have to say, finally: Let’s invite one another in. Maybe then we can begin to fear less, to make fewer wrong assumptions, to let go of the biases and stereotypes that unnecessarily divide us.”

-Michelle Obama 

“What I won’t allow myself to do, though, is to become cynical. In my most worried moments, I take a breath and remind myself of the dignity and decency I’ve seen in people throughout my life, the many obstacles that have already been overcome. ”

-Michelle Obama 

“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.”

-Michelle Obama 

“It’s all a process, steps along a path. Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor. Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done.”

-Michelle Obama Quotes