One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERHe who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.
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Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
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It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
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The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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Without my Savior, I am nothing.
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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.
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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.
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There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
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When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.
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