Mary McLeod Bethune Famous Quotes



"Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible."

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.


Mary McLeod Bethune Quotations






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Good questions outrank easy answers.
Paul A Samuelson

"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
Margaret Lee Runbeck

"A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place."
Tanielle Naus

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.
Aristotle

"On love I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being."
Harlan Ellison

"An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave."
Plutarch

"When the leadership is right and the time is right, the people can always be counted upon to follow--to the end at all costs."
Harold J Seymour

The gods help them that help themselves.
Aesop

Sweet is war to those who know it not.
Pindar

"The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one."
H L Mencken