My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERThere are two ways, one is right; the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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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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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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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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Education is understanding relationships.
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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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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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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
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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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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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The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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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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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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Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.
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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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