Michelle Obama Quotes

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

I figure if you're going to go to class, you might as well make an A.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.

I didn't say I was that smart, I said I went to class and I enjoyed what I was doing.

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

Teachers started recognizing me and praising me for being smart in science and that made me want to be even smarter in science!

I'm a representative of what you can become if you work hard and you focus on your education.

I got good grades. I played sports.

My mother and brother made me strive to get good grades and get through school.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

Work hard and never make excuses.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

I've worked hard all my life. You have to if you want to get things done.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive.

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation, talk about all the things it takes to be greater or are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.

My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.