Michelle Obama Quotes

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.

We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

In my experience, I have learned that there is rarely the perfect man for the perfect job, but Reagan was born to play the role of president. He was an inspirational leader when the country really needed it.

I stand here today as the first woman first minister of our country. Every day I hold this office, I will work to ensure that every woman, every wee girl across this country, gets a chance to do what I've done and follow their dream.

It is so inspirational, to see that in the world of Westeros, men are answering to women, and they are a force to be reckoned with. It's empowering, and it's inspirational as well, because you're just like, 'This is great!'

Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.

I feel like I influence more than just rap.

A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there.

High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

A leader must be inspired by the people before a leader can inspire the people.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality; the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow

Those who lead inspire us Whether they are individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to but because we want to.

Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.

The difference between government and leadership is that leadership has a soul.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

I think one of things that Steve Jobs, in his own funny way, encouraged us to remember with those "Think different" posters of Gandhi and Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King was, "How do you make the world a better place?"

Lyndon Johnson rose above the doubt and fear to hold this Nation on course until we rediscovered our faith in ourselves.

Polls are no substitute for leadership because, at its very essence, leadership is about giving people what they don't already have - a sense of vision, inspiration, or even an adequate grasp of a particular subject.

I was influenced by the political environment of our country that has just gained freedom from British colonialism. And the seminal figures in that environment were Mahatma Gandhi, who had been assassinated shortly after I was born, but nevertheless dominated the collective psyche of the country. And of course there were other statesmen who were very much part of the culture we knew as well as looked upon by society as leaders, and mentors, and people that inspires us to have a vision for idealism.

A great leader has brains, vision, soul, values and a heart.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Great leaders motivate large groups of individuals to improve the human condition.