My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERNinety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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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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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.
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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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The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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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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Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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