God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERI 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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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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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 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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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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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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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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Without my Savior, I am nothing.
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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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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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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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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 is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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