Vinoba Bhave

We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off. Vinoba Bhave It is only when our life proceeds within bounds and in an accepted, disciplined way, that the mind can be free. Vinoba Bhave Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti [...]

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 I never stop to plan. I take things step by step. Mary McLeod Bethune The whole world opened to me when I learned to read. Mary McLeod Bethune We have a [...]

Catharine Beecher

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true. Catharine Beecher As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul. Catharine [...]

Carol Bellamy

In working with UNICEF our corporate partners have demonstrated time and again that their financial resources, leadership and expertise can bring about real and lasting benefits for the world’s children. Carol Bellamy Thus the Convention is unequivocal in its call for children to be consulted, to have their opinions heard and to have their best [...]

Jacques Barzun

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Jacques Barzun Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the [...]

Dennis Banks

In 1978, the tradition of running from village to village with a message was revived. that first run was from Davis to Los Angeles, a distance of 500 miles. Dennis Banks When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then. Dennis Banks Even the people who come our way look upon us [...]

James Baldwin

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities. James Baldwin If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things [...]

Emily Greene Balch

Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate. Emily Greene Balch Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance [...]

Andrew J. Bacevich

It’s not so much the amount of tax we pay – it’s the sense that our pocket’s being picked without our knowing what’s going on. Andrew J. Bacevich

Roger Babson

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it. Roger Babson It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Babson Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. Roger Babson Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing [...]

Thomas Arnold

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. Thomas Arnold The difference between one man and another is not mere ability it is energy. Thomas Arnold It was from an old friend who [...]

Robert Anthony

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Anthony When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change… you will change. Robert Anthony The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. Robert Anthony We fear the thing we want the most. Robert Anthony Courage is simply the willingness [...]

Robert Anthony

Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable, than risk being happy. Robert Anthony When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change… you will change. Robert Anthony The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. Robert Anthony We fear the thing we want the most. Robert Anthony Courage is simply the willingness [...]

Amos Bronson Alcott

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. Amos Bronson Alcott We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. Amos Bronson Alcott A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. Amos Bronson [...]

Felix Adler

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar’s life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds. Felix Adler In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of [...]

Charles Kendall Adams

No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him. Charles Kendall Adams In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner’s heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not [...]

Herbert Baxter Adams

Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men. Herbert Baxter Adams

Freda Adler

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds. Freda Adler Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. Freda Adler The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold [...]