My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERThere is no short cut to acheivement.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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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.
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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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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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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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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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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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Without my Savior, I am nothing.
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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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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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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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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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Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
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Education is understanding relationships.
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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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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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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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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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Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
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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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