Michelle Obama Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

  Michelle Obama

  Badass, Opportunity, Giving

  "Why can't we celebrate women's sport without relating it to men's" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2007.

• Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it...and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are, or where we're from, or what we look like, or who we love.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Country, Opportunity

  Michelle Obama's Convention Speech, www.npr.org. September 4, 2012.

• Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Opportunity, Promise

  "Michelle Obama in London to promote global education drive for girls". www.businessinsider.com. June 16, 2015.

• Service is a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe.

  Michelle Obama

  Leadership, Opportunity, Reason Why

• You all have opportunities and skills and education that so many folks who came before you never could have dreamed of. So just imagine the kind of impact that you're going to make. Imagine how you can inspire those around you to reach higher and complete their own education.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspiring, Graduation, Opportunity

  Remarks by the First Lady in Commencement Address to Dillard University, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 10, 2014.

• We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

  Michelle Obama

  Motivation, Children, Real

• Kids who participate in school meal programs get roughly half of their calories each day at school. ... This is an extraordinary responsibility. But it's also an opportunity. And it's why one of the single most important things we can do to fight childhood obesity is to make those meals at school as healthy and nutritious as possible.

  Michelle Obama

  Children, Kids, Responsibility

• Style helps distinguish you . . . It's a great potential opportunity that people tend to leave by the wayside

  Michelle Obama

  Opportunity, People, Style

• I tell this to my girls all the time: This journey we're on is a once - in - a - lifetime opportunity.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Opportunity, Journey

• When you walk through that door of opportunity you don't slam it shut behind you.

  Michelle Obama

  Opportunity, Doors, Behind You

• I mean, that's the least we should do for these men and women [veterans and military spouses], is to make sure they come back to jobs that pay, to career opportunities, that these spouses are able to add a second income to their households, because these families do not have a lot of resources.

  Michelle Obama

  Jobs, Military, Mean

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Sometimes the issue is about whether families and communities think girls are even worthy of an education in the first place. It's about whether girls are valued only for their labor and reproductive capacities or for their minds as well. And it's about whether women are viewed as second-class citizens or as full human beings entitled to the same rights and opportunities as men.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

• After I got out of law school and worked in a big law firm, I thought, there are so many kids like me, in my neighborhood, that could be here if they had more support from their families, better financial aid. But the gap is so wide once you miss that opportunity. So I was always interested in figuring out, How do you bridge that? I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, School, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

• During the first campaign, one of my jobs as my husband's spouse was to travel around the country and really listen to women. There were voices that were new to me: the voices of military spouses, many of them women, and veterans.... I was overwhelmed by their challenges, and the notion that we as a country don't even know that these women exist, because we live in a country where one percent of the population protects the rights and freedoms of the other 99 percent of us. I thought that if I had the opportunity to serve as First Lady, I was going to use this platform to be their voice.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Jobs, Husband

  Source: www.glamour.com

• To get kids involved in meal planning and preparation, create games out of trying new foods, and provide ample opportunities for physical activity, recognizing it may take some time to find an activity they truly enjoy.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Opportunity, Games

  "Michelle Obama talks nutrition and 'wakeup call' moment in her family's past". Interview with Morgan Whitaker, www.aol.com. September 10, 2015.

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