Mary Mcleod Bethune Quotes

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

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

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing. ... Though I hadn't a penny left I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God faith in myself and a desire to serve.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

Without faith nothing is possible. With it nothing is impossible.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.

~ 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

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

~ Mary Mcleod Bethune

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

~ 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