Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERLearn to do the common things uncommonly well.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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.
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Education is understanding relationships.
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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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When our thoughts – which bring actions – are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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Without my Savior, I am nothing.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
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