Bethune Quotes: top 56 famous quotes about Bethune

Bethune Quotes & Sayings

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Whether I'm at the hangar or at the airport or on an airplane, I get respect. And that's the best part of my day. — Gordon Bethune

Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling. — Paul Watson

Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world. — Mary McLeod Bethune

What you measure and reward is what you're going to get. — Gordon Bethune

It's not a testosterone-driven industry any longer. Success is making money, not in the size of the airline. — Gordon Bethune

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice. — Norman Bethune

Every pilot thinks they're the best pilot in the world. I think I'm the best pilot. — Gordon Bethune

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Without faith nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. — Mary McLeod Bethune

You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees. — Gordon Bethune

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me. — Mary McLeod Bethune

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results. — Gordon Bethune

We're a stupid industry led by stupid people, — Gordon Bethune

For I am my mother's daughter, and ... — Mary McLeod Bethune

Cease to be a drudge. Seek to be an artist. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour. — Mary McLeod Bethune

The substitute for knowledge is money. — Gordon Bethune

[To the patronizing train conductor who had twice said, 'Auntie, give me your ticket':] Which of my sister's sons are you? — Mary McLeod Bethune

Our children must never lose their zeal for
building a better world. — Mary McLeod Bethune

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves. — Maximilien De Bethune, Duke Of Sully

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported. — Mary McLeod Bethune

I learned that you can be successful if you get people to help you become successful. — Gordon Bethune

It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline so cheap, nobody will fly it. — Gordon Bethune

It's like telling Mozart that there are too many notes in an opera. Which one do you want us to take out? — Gordon Bethune

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that. — Gordon Bethune

Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father. — Larry Hannant

You're only as good as your dumbest competitor. — Gordon Bethune

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

Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better. — Mary McLeod Bethune

You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat. — Mary McLeod Bethune

It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere. — Gordon Bethune

Enter to learn; depart to serve. — 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

World peace and brotherhood are based on a common understanding of the contributions and cultures of all races and creeds — Mary McLeod Bethune

Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt — Mary McLeod Bethune

I just want to be able to get on an airplane and enjoy myself in Disneyland, not sit there worrying about all these assassins. — Gordon Bethune

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could. — Mary McLeod Bethune

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. — Mary McLeod Bethune

Do you know how much faster I can fix an airplane when I want to fix it than when I don't want to fix it? — Gordon Bethune

without awareness that all belong to the one human race, man is but a wolf to man. This — Pierre-Francois De Bethune

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. — Mary McLeod Bethune

We tax air passengers like cigarettes and alcohol - we impose sin taxes on travellers. — Gordon Bethune

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant. — Darnell Lamont Walker

He who would rise like Thee, like Thee must owe His glory only to his stooping low. - Bethune. — Lillian G. Harvey

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country. — Maximilien De Bethune, Duke Of Sully

Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T. — Gordon Bethune

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart. — Mary McLeod Bethune

There is no name so sweet on earth,
no name so sweet in heaven,
The name, before His wondrous birth,
to Christ the Savior given. — George Washington Bethune

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it. — Gordon Bethune

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment. — Mary McLeod Bethune

The progress of the world will call for the best that all of us have to give. — Mary McLeod Bethune

If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you. — Gordon Bethune

A bankruptcy judge can fix your balance sheet, but he cannot fix your company. — Gordon Bethune