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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERLook about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
-
-
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
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 CARVER -
It is simply service that measures success.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER -
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER