Top 64 Melinda Gates Quotes

#1. I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

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#2. As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

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#3. Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

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#4. We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

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#5. I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.

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#6. Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

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#7. We started this mostly from an intellectual place.

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#8. We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that ... sometimes every week.

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#9. When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

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#10. You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

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#11. We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'

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#12. That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

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#13. The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred. It just means that they're getting to make choices about their lives.

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#14. Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It's what propels societies forward.

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#15. What great changes have not been ambitious?

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#16. There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.

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#17. In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.

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#18. Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

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#19. Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

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#20. But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.

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#21. When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

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#22. I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

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#23. Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

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#24. After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

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#25. Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

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#26. I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.

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#27. Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

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#28. Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

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#29. I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?

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#30. Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

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#31. If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

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#32. Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.

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#33. If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

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#34. All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

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#35. If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

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#36. Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

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#37. A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

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#38. We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.

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#39. The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

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#40. If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

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#41. Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most.

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#42. If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

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#43. I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.

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#44. Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.

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#45. Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

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#46. But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

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#47. One life is worth no more or less than any other

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#48. When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

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#49. Deep human connection is ... the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.

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#50. My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

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#51. I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

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#52. It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

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#53. I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.

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#54. Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.

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#55. Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

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#56. It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister - a person with hopes and dreams.

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#57. I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

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#58. All lives have an equal value.

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#59. When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it to demand a life that is greater than what they've been told they have a right to expect. And these demands change the future for everyone.

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#60. There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained ... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.

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#61. I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

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#62. You can't save kids just with vaccines.

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#63. Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.

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#64. We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.

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