Michelle Obama Quotes

People need role models. They need to see examples of people in peoples' lives.

People need heroes, in music and every aspect of life.

I can be the guy to motivate people from all different backgrounds and all different walks of life.

Little girls need someone to look up to - and little boys need strong women to look up to, as well. I don't think your heroes should be relegated to someone who's the same sex or from the same background as you. Little boys should grow up wanting to be like Serena Williams.

We surround ourselves with what is better or see other people as role models. You go, "If they can do this, so can I." That starts to trigger people, as well.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.

I'm inspired by the work of those (and sometimes even the people themselves) who strive to inspire.

I've had great people come in my life, meaning not just men, but women, support me and empower me. So that has lifted me to be the woman I am.

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

I may not be a role model, but I most definitely could be motivation for a lot of people in the hoods.

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to.

Choose great people and shine in their shadows

People pay to see others believe in themselves.

I talk about role models a lot and wanting to be a role model for kids around me because I didn't have that growing up.

You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

If we treat people as who they can become, they will be inspired to rise to the level of our expectations.

Big people don't make people feel small.

There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.

Would you make men better - set them an example. The millenium will never come until governments cease from governing, and the meddler is at rest.

I want to lead people toward finding hope through the purity and healing power of metal.

People live by example. I can't tell you, "You can be anything," if I shot my own dreams down or was too afraid to go after them.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

People see me doing something so all of the guys from my walk of life feel like if he can do it, I can do it. That just keeps spreading and spreading and spreading.