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 CARVERI know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
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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Do what you can, with what you have and do it now!
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Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer.
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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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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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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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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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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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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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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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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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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
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It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.
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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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