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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERWe 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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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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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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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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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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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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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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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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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Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
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It is simply service that measures success.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
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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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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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