43 Motivational Melinda Gates Quotes (EMPOWER)

Top 10 Most Famous Melinda Gates Quotes (BEST)

“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.”
Melinda Gates

It's the mark of a backward society - or a society moving backward - when decisions are made for women by men. — It’s the mark of a backward society – or a society moving backward – when decisions are made for women by men.

Love is the most powerful and underused force for change in the world... For me, love is the effort to help others flourish — and it often begins with lifting up a person's self image. — **Love** is the most powerful and underused force for **change** in the world… For me, love is the effort to help others flourish — and it often begins with lifting up a person’s self image.

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

If you want to lift up humanity, empower women. It is the most comprehensive, pervasive, high-leverage investment you can make in human beings. — If you want to lift up humanity, empower women. It is the most comprehensive, pervasive, high-leverage **investment** you can make in human beings.

“Every society says its outsiders are the problem. But the outsiders are not the problem; the urge to create outsiders is the problem. Overcoming that urge is our greatest challenge and our greatest promise. It will take courage and insight, because the people we push to the margins are the ones who trigger in us the feelings we’re afraid of.”
Melinda Gates

Great wealth can be very confusing. It can inflate and distort your sense of self — especially if you believe money means merit. — Great **wealth** can be very confusing. It can inflate and distort your sense of self — especially if you believe **money** means merit.

Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born. — Women and girls should be able to determine their own **future**, no matter where they’re born.

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

“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.”
Melinda Gates

12 Melinda Gates Quotes on Women Empowerment

“Being a feminist means believing that every woman should be able to use her voice and pursue her potential, and that women and men should all work together to take down the barriers and end the biases that still hold women back.”
Melinda Gates

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

You can create all kinds of new tools, but if you’re not moving toward equality, you’re not really changing the world. You’re just rearranging it. — You can create all kinds of new tools, but if you’re not moving toward **equality**, you’re not really **changing** the world. You’re just rearranging it.

“Year by year, with the support and insights of friends and partners and people who have gone before me, I see more clearly that the primary causes of poverty and illness are the cultural, financial, and legal restrictions that block what women can do—and think they can do—for themselves and their children.”
Melinda Gates

That is why we women have to lift each other up — not to replace men at the top of the hierarchy, but to become partners with men in ending hierarchy.

When women can decide whether and when to have children, it saves lives, promotes health, expands education, and creates prosperity. — When women can decide whether and when to have **children**, it saves lives, promotes **health**, expands **education**, and creates prosperity.

“Poverty is not being able to protect your family. Poverty is not being able to save your children when mothers with more money could. And because the strongest instinct of a mother is to protect her children, poverty is the most disempowering force on earth.”
Melinda Gates

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies. — Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their **pregnancies**.

No country in the last fifty years has emerged from poverty without expanding access to contraceptives.

It often takes many women, arms linked, to inspire other women to speak.

Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.

It’s important to remember that behind each data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister — a person with hopes and dreams. — It’s important to remember that behind each data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister — a person with **hopes** and **dreams**.

7 Inspirational Melinda Gates Quotes on Life and Success

“To bring about a revolution of the heart, you have to let your heart break. Letting your heart break means sinking into the pain that’s underneath the anger… If you don’t accept the suffering, hurt can turn to hatred.”
Melinda Gates

If I didn’t fill my schedule with things I felt were important, other people would fill my schedule with things they felt were important.

Wisdom isn’t about accumulating more facts; it’s about understanding big truths in a deeper way. — **Wisdom** isn’t about accumulating more facts; it’s about understanding big **truths** in a deeper way.

When people can’t agree, it’s often because there is no empathy, no sense of shared experience. If you feel what others feel, you’re more likely to see what they see. — When people can’t agree, it’s often because there is no **empathy**, no sense of shared experience. If you feel what others feel, you’re more likely to see what they see.

The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let it spur you to action. — The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let it spur you to **action**.

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

Optimism is a huge asset. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better. — **Optimism** is a huge **asset**. We can always use more of it. But optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better; it’s a conviction that we can make things better.

8 Melinda Gates Quotes on Equality

Gender diversity is not just good for women; it's good for anyone who wants results. — **Gender diversity** is not just good for women; it’s good for anyone who wants results.

I believe that all lives have equal value. That all men and women are created equal. That everyone belongs. — I believe that all lives have equal value. That all men and women are created **equal**. That everyone belongs.

Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings. It is the key to ending deep inequality.

Shaming women for their sexuality is a standard tactic for drowning out the voices of women who want to decide whether and when to have children.

Limiting women’s power keeps everyone poor. Fortunately, as a society becomes better off, a woman’s position in that society improves.

Disrespect for women grows when religions are dominated by men.

I believe without question that the disrespect for women embodied male-dominated religion is a factor in laws and customs that keep women down.

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

5 Melinda Gates Quotes on Volunteering

“When you see a mother and her children suffering in another part of the world, don’t look away. Look right at them. Let them break your heart, then let your empathy and your talents help you make a difference in the lives of others.”
Melinda Gates