Top 450 Michelle Obama Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Michelle Obama

52. “For me exercise is more than just physical, it’s therapeutic.”

— Michelle Obama

53. “Here’s to Strong Women. May We Know Them. May We Be Them. May We Raise Them.”

— Michelle Obama

54. “The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.”

— Michelle Obama

55. “Be passionate about something and lean to that strength.”

— Michelle Obama

56. “Am I good enough? Yes, I am.”

— Michelle Obama

57. “If we truly believe that every girl in every corner of the globe is worthy of an education as our own daughters and granddaughters are, then we need to deepen our commitment to these efforts.”

— Michelle Obama

58. “Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt.”

— Michelle Obama

59. “He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.”

— Michelle Obama

60. “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

61. “I am only as good as my children are.”

— Michelle Obama

62. “There’s a power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there’s a grace in being willing to know and hear others. This, for me, is how we become.”

— Michelle Obama

63. “All of us are driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won’t do – that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.”

— Michelle Obama

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

— Michelle Obama

65. “My message to women: Do what makes you feel good, because there’ll always be someone who thinks you should do it differently. Whether your choices are hits or misses, at least they’re your own.”

— Michelle Obama

66. “We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.”

— Michelle Obama

67. “It’s all about patience and persistence – you often have to expose a child to a new food numerous times before he or she will begin to like it. So keep trying!”

— Michelle Obama

68. “Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done.”

— Michelle Obama

69. “I have never been proud of America my entire adult life.”

— Michelle Obama

70. “The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.”

— Michelle Obama

71. “My goal is to be a great-looking 70-year-old! I won’t mind being 70, but I want people to say, “You’re 70?””

— Michelle Obama

72. “I can make choices that make me happy, and it will ripple and benefit my kids, my husband, and my physical health. That’s hard for women to own; we’re not taught to do that.”

— Michelle Obama

73. “I tell this to my girls all the time: This journey we’re on is a once – in – a – lifetime opportunity.”

— Michelle Obama

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

— Michelle Obama

75. “There is nothing more important to this nation’s future than investing in our young people.”

— Michelle Obama

76. “Whether an illness affects your heart, your leg or your brain, it’s still an illness, and there should be no distinction.”

— Michelle Obama

77. “We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.”

— Michelle Obama

78. “You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.”

— Michelle Obama

79. “My happiness is tied to how I feel about myself.”

— Michelle Obama

80. “What I tell my kids is, ‘I’m preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.’”

— Michelle Obama

81. “In our house we don’t take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage.”

— Michelle Obama

82. “Service is a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe.”

— Michelle Obama

83. “I felt sometimes like a swan on a lake, knowing that my job was in part to glide and appear serene, while underwater I never stopped pedaling my legs.”

— Michelle Obama

84. “Happiness for me is when my kids are good and when my family is whole.”

— Michelle Obama

85. “I never thought I’d be on Sesame Street with Elmo and Big Bird. I’m still thrilled. I’m on a high.”

— Michelle Obama

86. “I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.”

— Michelle Obama

87. “When I’m unhappy with something, people know, because I don’t want to hold on to it. I’d rather deal immediately with the stuff that bothers me, so using my network – my girlfriends, my husband, my mom – I talk a lot, I vent.”

— Michelle Obama

88. “Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.”

— Michelle Obama

89. “And then there’s this guy, Barack Obama, who lost – I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but – he lost his first race for Congress, and now he gets to call himself my husband.”

— Michelle Obama

90. “I always want to be on the cusp of being in the best shape that I can be.”

— Michelle Obama

91. “The beauty of my job is that I get to see more of that America. And that feeds me.”

— Michelle Obama

92. “Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.”

— Michelle Obama

93. “I think that mentoring is such a critical part of the role I can play in my position. I see how little bits of exposure and big bits of exposure really change my girls significantly, and I want that for more girls around the country and the world.”

— Michelle Obama

94. “If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.”

— Michelle Obama

95. “I am a sleeper. When you wake up at 4:30 in the morning to do a workout, you’re sleepy at 8 in the evening. By 10 o’clock at the latest, I’m in bed.”

— Michelle Obama

96. “We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.”

— Michelle Obama

97. “For every door that’s been opened to me, I’ve tried to open my door to others.”

— Michelle Obama

98. “When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.”

— Michelle Obama

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

— Michelle Obama

100. “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