Becoming Book Quotes by Michelle Obama

Becoming Book Quotes by Michelle Obama

Becoming is the story of Michelle Obama who is the former first lady of the United States of America. She has thoroughly described her experience in the White House and about her life.

She has mentioned many quotes that will help the reader understand and relate. 

Let’s get to the list of quotes from the “Becoming” Book.

List best quotes from the Becoming Book:- 

1. “Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

2. “Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

3. “Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

4. “The lesson being that in life you control what you can.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

5. “We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

6. “His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

7. “At fifty-four, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

8. “Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

9. “Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

10. “Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses… swapped back and forth and over again.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

12. “Failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

13. “Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s a vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

15. “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, Becoming

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

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

17. “You may live in the world as it is, but you can still work to create the world as it should be.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

18.  “The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

19. “I was deeply, delightfully in love with a guy whose forceful intellect and ambition could possibly end up swallowing mine.”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

20. “When they go low, we go high”

― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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Wrapping up

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