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 CARVERMost people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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 know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
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It is simply service that measures success.
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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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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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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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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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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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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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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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