Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERThe 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
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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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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.
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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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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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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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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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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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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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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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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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