first lady Quotes

Do one thing every day that scares you.

• 600
• motivational

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

• 431
• strength

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway.

• 408
• inspirational

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

• 361
• Gossip

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

• 360
• Dreams

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again. Keep the child in You alive

• 317
• future

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience which you must stop and look fear in the face.

• 247
• experience

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

• 73
• Actions

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

• 37
• motivational

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

• 30
• Mistakes

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

• 28
• birthday

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

• 26
• Confidence

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

• 25
• women

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

• 21
• Planning

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

• 20
• sad

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

• 20
• Inferiority

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

• 18
• attitude

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

• 18
• Effort

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

• 15
• choices

If you mess up your children, nothing else you do really matters.

• 14
• children

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

• 12
• causes

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

• 12
• Friends

You always admire what you really don't understand.

• 12
• Admiration

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

• 11
• things

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

• 11
• almost

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

• 11
• Life

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

• 11
• Fear

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

• 11
• Children

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

• 10
• cool

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

• 10
• Immortality

Understanding is a two-way street.

• 8
• Understanding

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

• 8
• Snow

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

• 8
• Life

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

• 7
• Work

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

• 7
• Words

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

• 7
• Appreciation

I really didn't want to have my name on the center, because it just seemed like it was too much of a personal thing.

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• center

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

• 6
• Learning

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

• 5
• consent

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

• 5
• best

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

• 5
• candle

I have an independent streak. You know, it's kind of hard to tell a independent woman what to do.

• 5
• hard

America is just downright mean.

• 5
• america

A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.

• 5
• Women

You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.

• 5
• Luck

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

• 5
• Life

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.

• 5
• Freedom

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

• 4
• bed

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

• 4
• best

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

• 4
• come