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 CARVERBelieve. 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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Education is understanding relationships.
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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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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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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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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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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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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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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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