Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes

Mary McLeod Bethune Quotes.

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of t

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it’s letting go of the hurt
Mary McLeod Bethune
To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!
Mary McLeod Bethune
Our children must never lose their zeal for
building a better world.
Mary McLeod Bethune
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Mary McLeod Bethune
The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom. Unwisely directed, it can be a dreadful, destructive force.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Mary McLeod Bethune
We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.
Mary McLeod Bethune
The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give.
Mary McLeod Bethune
I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.
Mary McLeod Bethune
I thought, maybe the difference between white folks and colored is just this matter of reading and writing. I made up my mind I would know my letters.
Mary McLeod Bethune
A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny, if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow.
Mary McLeod Bethune
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Enter to learn; depart to serve.
Mary McLeod Bethune
I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.
Mary McLeod Bethune