Michelle Obama

People ignore the thing they have the most power over. I know so many people who will go to a protest and do something big on an issue. But they won’t deal with that issue in their home.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list.

As I reminded my girls, these aren’t problems. These are very high class problems. Because of where Barack and I come from, we just couldn’t sympathize with their… It was like, ‘Girl, you live in the White House. You do not get to complain about this.

If we don’t teach our young girls to speak at an early age, that doesn’t just happen.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

When they go low, we go high.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

There’s an old German proverb to the effect that fear makes the wolf bigger than he is,and that is true.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face, and there will be barriers, be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

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.

Fear is primarily a creation of the mind. I create it in my mind-it doesn’t really exist outside the mind. I can dissolve it there as well. – John Mackey

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.