Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERIt is simply service that measures success.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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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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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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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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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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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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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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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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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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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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