Jonas Salk Quotes

Everyone has something to contribute to this world. It's just a matter of being given that opportunity to do so.

Women ... I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society.

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time.

I don't view myself as a team manager, but a team captain. I'm part of the team, but everybody else as well.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

I think, in terms of corporate philosophy, I've always believed that you've got to treat people in a very very egalitarian manner in the sense I like to treat people on a one-to-one basis. And I like people to take on a lot of responsibilities because I think with a sense of responsibility also comes a sense of purpose.

This is your moment. You're meant to be here.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Women will take their places beside men as partners, unafraid, useful, successful, and free

Women hold up half the sky

Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.

Women with opportunities are women who can contribute.

We're strongest when we're united, and we're united when everyone has an opportunity to contribute their talents and ideas.

In the creative community, there's no excuse for not making a more equitable environment.

Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

They say behind every great man is a great woman, but I think it works the other way round as well.

If we could find a way to totally empower half of the brains in America, imagine how much more productive we could be.

Great women, in partnership with great men, will continue to take us forward.

You are not created for poverty.

Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it.

He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

There are such wonderful possibilities in the life of each man and woman! No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.