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.
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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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.
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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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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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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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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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