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 CARVERLet us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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It is simply service that measures success.
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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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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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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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Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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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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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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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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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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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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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
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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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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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God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.
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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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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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Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer.
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I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
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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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Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
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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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