Bethune Cookman Quotes

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

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

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

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

I've spent my life as an airplane mechanic, pilot, aircraft manufacturer and airline CEO who never lost a life or an airplane. I am considerate of the risk we take every time we fly. I also know we need to fly and always to improve safety. ~ Gordon Bethune

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong. ~ Langston Hughes

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

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

In each experience of my life, I have had to step out of one little space of the known light, into a large area of darkness. I had to stand awhile in the darkness, and then gradually God has given me light. But not to linger in. For as soon as that light has felt familiar, then the call has always come to step out ahead again into new darkness. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood. ~ 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

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

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

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

When you actually take the time to go over to somebody's office and personally thank them - whether their office is in a cockpit of an airplane, or in a break room - that's an actual manifestation of interest in them. You need to take the time to show the people around you who work for you that you're interested in them. ~ Gordon Bethune

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

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

I was a mechanic in the Navy. And mechanics in the Navy are like mechanics in airlines. You may have more stripes than I do, but you don't know how to fix the airplane. ~ Gordon Bethune

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

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

Enter to learn; depart to serve. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune

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

There is no economy without airlines. Airfreight runs the world. There is no Honolulu without an airplane. This is a very complex system. If you take it down, you can't build it back up overnight. ~ Gordon Bethune

The guy in the airplane goes with you. So he has self-interest to do the good things, too, and I don't know of any pilots that don't have a self-interest in staying alive. ~ Gordon Bethune

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

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

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

Somebody who knows what they're doing, who has a good track record, they come across as very articulate, bright and looking for a challenge - that's absolutely my kind of hire. ~ Gordon Bethune

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it. ~ Mary McLeod Bethune

But I like to think that a lot of managers and executives trying to solve problems miss the forest for the trees by forgetting to look at their people
not at how much more they can get from their people or how they can more effectively manage their people. I think they need to look a little more closely at what it's like for their people to come to work there every day. ~ Gordon 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

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

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

Grounding airplanes to cover your butt would never have let Orville or Wilbur change the world. We would still be spending weeks to cross the Atlantic to do business in London. ~ Gordon Bethune

In airplanes you have a choice between chocolate and vanilla. One year could be vanilla or it could be chocolate. I don't attach any relevance to which one. ~ Gordon Bethune

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. ~ Mary McLeod 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

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

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

Since 1978 the record pretty well shows that no start-up airline ... has really been successful, so the odds of JetBlue having long-term success are remote. I'm not going to say it can't happen because stranger things have happened, but I personally believe P.T. Barnum was, in that respect, correct. ~ Gordon Bethune