Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERThere 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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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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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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Without my Savior, I am nothing.
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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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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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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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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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Education is understanding relationships.
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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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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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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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