Choose people who lift you up.
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.
Let us not forget: I didn’t just wake up First Lady… I mean, I went to law school, I practised law, I worked for the city, I ran a nonprofit (and) I was an executive at a hospital. I’ve been in the world. I’ve worked in every sector, and you don’t do that without coming up against some stuff. You know, having your feelings hurt, having people say things about you that aren’t true Life hits you, so over the course of living, you learn how to protect yourself in it. You learn to take in what you need and get rid of the stuff that’s clearly not true.
No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful.
I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.
I view myself as being the average woman.
Branching streams cannot compare to the source.
He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with both.
In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Tis God gives skill, but not without men’s hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius’s violins without Antonio.
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.
The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights.
