HEART

 

 

 

“I am an example of

WHAT IS POSSIBLE

WHEN GIRLS from the very beginning

of their lives ARE LOVED and

nurtured by people around them.”

—Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School, April 2, 2009

 

 

 

“SUCCESS isn’t about how your

life looks to others. It’s about how it

feels to you. We realized that being

successful isn’t about being impressive,

IT’S ABOUT BEING INSPIRED.

That’s what it means to be true to yourself.”

—Oregon State University, June 17, 2012

 

 

 

“The only limit to THE HEIGHT

OF YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS IS

THE REACH OF YOUR DREAMS

and your willingness to

WORK HARD FOR THEM.”

—Democratic National Convention, August 25, 2008

 

 

 

“CHANGE ISN’T EMOTION.

It’s real work and organization and strategy—

… You pull people in with inspiration,

but then you have to roll up your sleeves

and you’ve got to make sacrifices

and you have got to have structure.”

—Interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, February 14, 2008

 

 

 

“We should always have three friends in

our lives—ONE WHO WALKS AHEAD

who we look up to and we follow;

ONE WHO WALKS BESIDE US,

who is with us every step of our journeys;

and then, ONE WHO WE REACH

BACK FOR and we bring along

after we’ve cleared the way.”

—National Mentoring Summit, January 15, 2011

 

 

 

“It has to be a true partnership,

and you have to really,

REALLY LIKE AND

RESPECT THE PERSON

YOU’RE MARRIED TO

because it is a hard road.”

—Interview on The Oprah Winfrey Show, May 2, 2011

 

 

 

“Young people,

DON’T BE AFRAID.

Be focused, be determined, be hopeful,

BE EMPOWERED.”

—Final remarks as First Lady, School Counselor of the Year Reach Higher Event, January 6, 2017

 

 

 

“LIVE LIFE ON

YOUR OWN TERMS …

Anyone who has achieved anything

in life, knows challenges and

failures are components of success.”

—Black Girls Rock!, BET, March 28, 2015

 

 

 

“ALWAYS STAY TRUE

TO YOURSELF

and never let what somebody else says

distract you from YOUR goals.”

—Interview with Marie Claire, October 22, 2008

 

 

 

“KNOW THAT

THIS COUNTRY

BELONGS TO YOU—

TO ALL OF YOU,

FROM EVERY BACKGROUND

AND WALK OF LIFE.”

—Final remarks as First Lady, School Counselor of the Year Reach Higher Event, January 6, 2017

 

 

 

“WE ROCK!

NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE,

no matter WHERE YOU COME FROM,

YOU are beautiful, YOU are powerful,

YOU are brilliant, YOU are funny!”

—Black Girls Rock!, BET, March 28, 2015

 

 

 

“While that may not be the first

thing that some folks want to hear

from an Ivy-league educated lawyer,

it is truly who I am. So for me,

BEING MOM-IN-CHIEF IS,

AND ALWAYS WILL BE,

JOB NUMBER ONE.”

—Tuskegee University, May 9, 2015

 

 

 

“JUST LIVE YOUR LIFE.

LIVE IT OUT LOUD.”

—Interview with Oprah Winfrey, CBS, December 19, 2016