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 GATESWe 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?’
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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All lives have an equal value.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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