I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVEROne 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self.
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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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Without my Savior, I am nothing.
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
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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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There are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.
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The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
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He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.
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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.
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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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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
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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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My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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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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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.
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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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