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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERHow 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
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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 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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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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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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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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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.
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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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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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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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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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Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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There is no short cut to acheivement.
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Without my Savior, I am nothing.
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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 secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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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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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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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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