God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERThere is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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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I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
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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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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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God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.
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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.
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It is simply service that measures success.
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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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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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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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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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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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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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