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 CARVERLearn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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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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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
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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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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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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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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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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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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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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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