Michelle Obama Quotes

Humility is becoming a lost art, but it's not difficult to practice. It means that you realize that others have been involved in your success.

Humility is what makes teams great. I've preached it for a long period of time.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

It's just really awesome to be rewarded for all your hard work; that people take notice of how I treated my teammates, how I was in my community.

It's always nice to be getting personal recognition, but I wouldn't be getting it if it wasn't for the help of my team-mates and the backroom staff.

To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.

Everyone who works for Manchester respected me. I tried to help, and I am very grateful to them.

You have to be able to recognize the value of the people around you.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

It's only lonely at the top if you forget all the people you met along the way and fail to acknowledge their contributions to your success.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Not surprisingly, most people feel most beautiful when they are involved in an act of service, or are doing something that makes them feel generous, connected, or seen by others.

You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

When I was pregnant, I was so huge and people on the bus would get up for me. That made me feel so precious and valued and valuable. I try to treat everyone like they're pregnant.

I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless.

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

In radio I had one, maybe two people who cared about getting it done. I'd really be a loser if I forgot where I came from. So I show them the love. And how hard is it really to be interested in someone's life?

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

When you actually take the time to go over to somebody's office and personally thank them - whether their office is in a cockpit of an airplane, or in a break room - that's an actual manifestation of interest in them. You need to take the time to show the people around you who work for you that you're interested in them.