Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERWhen 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.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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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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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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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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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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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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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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 purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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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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Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.
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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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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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The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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