Michelle Obama Quotes

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

For me, working with kids is one of my favorite ways to give back, and I refuse to let public opinion about whether I'm a 'winner' stop me from being a positive role model and mentor.

I think that everybody needs to find meaning in life. I was hoping to do something that serves the needs of society.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

If you want to experience joy in your life, you have to be able to step outside yourself and become part of a cause that is much larger than you; one that brings a greater good to a greater community.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

I'm grateful for every chance I get to do something I love and have a passion for.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.

When I see people that are my age and reaching 50, the ones that are really sparkly and full of joy are the ones that are committed to something bigger than themselves.

I don't want to do anything that I'm not passionate about.

I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.

It's a great feeling knowing you've helped someone. That's what I've spent my life doing and my practice.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

If you can help anyone in any way, that is what we are here for. The pinnacle of my life has really been two lives - golf and service to my fellow man.

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.

The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

When I see other people out there, involved, and really giving their time and effort for the kids, then I don't mind giving my time and effort for the kids as well.

The thing that gives me the most pleasure in the world is knowing that I’m making a difference