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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERWhen 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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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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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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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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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
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Education is understanding relationships.
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Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.
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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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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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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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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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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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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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