“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”
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“Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.”
“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.”
“Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.”
“If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.”
“We have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is not yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.”
“When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.”
“It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.”
“Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.”
“We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations”
“Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.”
“I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.”
“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.”
“I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.”
“When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.”
“As you discover your daily good, and believe in it, and think about it, expect it to continue.”
“If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.”
“The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.”
“Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.”
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”