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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERWe 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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERTo 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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERBelieve. 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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERWe 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 CARVERNo 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 CARVERIt 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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERWhen 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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERNature 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.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERWhere there is no vision, there is no hope.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVEROne of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERLook about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERThere is no short cut to acheivement.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERLet us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERThere is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERThe secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVERNever a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.
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