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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERLook about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
More George Washington Carver Quotes
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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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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 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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I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
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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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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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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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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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It is simply service that measures success.
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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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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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God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.
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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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER