Mary McLeod Bethune

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

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!

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

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

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.

I never stop to plan. I take things step-by-step.

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

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.

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

Cease to be a drudge seek to be an artist.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

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

I have had more than half a century of such happiness. A great deal of worry and sorrow too but never a worry or a sorrow that was not offset by a purple iris a lark a bluebird or a dewy morning glory.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision the determination and the courage to reach it.

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

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.

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.

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