My Top 10 Favourite Melinda Gates Quotes

Belinda Gates is an Amazing Global Influencer and Advocate for Women and Girls, Author and Business Woman, Philanthropist. Her passion is in Family, Motherhood, Children's Health and Empowering Women to have a Voice.

1. "What great changes have not been ambitious?"
2. "We have to open up to others. We have to give up the need to be separate and supreior."
3. "Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common."
4. "If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction."
5. "You can change the way you look at other people, you can choose to see their humanity first - the one big thing that makes them the same as you, instead of the many things that makes them different from you."
6. "Optimism for me isn't passive expectation that things will get better - that whatever suffering we see, no matter how bad it is, we can help people if we don't lose hope and we don't look away."
7. "I believe in the power of storytelling, because stories open our hearts to a new place, which opens our minds, which often leads to action."
8. "Love is the most powerful and understated 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."
9. "Great wealth can be very confusing. It can inflate and distort your sense of self - especially if you believe money means merit."
10. "I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual."

Melinda brings very personal yet down to earth points of view in approaching Life and Business as a Wife and Mother.